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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 10, 2007
Filed:
Jul. 30, 1999
Radhika Thekkath, Palo Alto, CA (US);
G. Michael Uhler, Redwood City, CA (US);
Ying-wai Ho, Los Altos, CA (US);
Chandlee B. Harrell, Cupertino, CA (US);
Radhika Thekkath, Palo Alto, CA (US);
G. Michael Uhler, Redwood City, CA (US);
Ying-wai Ho, Los Altos, CA (US);
Chandlee B. Harrell, Cupertino, CA (US);
MIPS Technologies, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A processor having a compare extension of an instruction set architecture which incorporates a set of high performance floating point operations. The instruction set architecture incorporates a variety of data formats including single precision and double precision data formats, as well as the paired-single data format that allows two simultaneous operations on a pair of operands. The extension includes instructions directed to a magnitude compare of floating point numbers and conversions between a pair of 32-bit fixed point integers and paired-single floating point format.