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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 24, 2006
Filed:
May. 09, 2002
Applicant:
Sadar Ahmed, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventor:
Sadar Ahmed, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Assignee:
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A floating point unit capable of converting a 64-bit integer number to a floating point format is provided. The floating point unit includes an 11-bit zero/one complement detect circuitry in an exponent datapath of the floating point unit, where the 11-bit zero/one complement detect circuitry is used to determine a shift count for a right shifter in a large exponent difference mantissa datapath of the floating point unit. The 11-bit zero/one complement detect circuitry determines shift counts based on particular bit groupings of the 64-bit operand.