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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 11, 2008
Applicants:
Maarten J. Boersma, Holzgerlingen, DE;
Michael Klein, Schoenaich, DE;
Jochen Preiss, Boeblingen, DE;
Son Dao Trong, Stuttgart, DE;
Inventors:
Maarten J. Boersma, Holzgerlingen, DE;
Michael Klein, Schoenaich, DE;
Jochen Preiss, Boeblingen, DE;
Son Dao Trong, Stuttgart, DE;
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 5/01 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A floating point processor unit includes a shift amount calculation circuit within a normalizer portion of the floating point unit, wherein the shift amount calculation circuit is utilized to compute the normalizer shift amount for a log estimate instruction that runs as a pipelinable instruction.