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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 2011
Filed:
Aug. 29, 2008
Maarten Boersma, Holzgerlingen, DE;
Michael Kroener, Ehningen, DE;
Petra Leber, Ehningen, DE;
Silvia M. Mueller, Altdorf, DE;
Jochen Preiss, Boeblingen, DE;
Kerstin Schelm, Stuttgart, DE;
Maarten Boersma, Holzgerlingen, DE;
Michael Kroener, Ehningen, DE;
Petra Leber, Ehningen, DE;
Silvia M. Mueller, Altdorf, DE;
Jochen Preiss, Boeblingen, DE;
Kerstin Schelm, Stuttgart, DE;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A 3-stack floorplan for a floating point unit includes: an aligner located in the center of the floating point unit; a frontend located directly above the aligner; a multiplier located directly below the frontend and next to the aligner; an adder located directly next to the multiplier and directly below the aligner; a normalizer located directly above the adder; and a rounder located directly above the normalizer.