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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:
Sep. 24, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 11, 2003
Applicants:
Alexander Driker, San Diego, CA (US);
Cristian Duroiu, San Diego, CA (US);
Inventors:
Alexander Driker, San Diego, CA (US);
Cristian Duroiu, San Diego, CA (US);
Assignee:
STMicroelectronics, Inc., Coppell, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/38 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method for computing the alignment sticky bit in floating-point operations is provided. The method includes computing a pre-computed sticky bit. A significand is aligned based on an alignment counter. A shifter sticky OR is computed. The alignment sticky bit is computed based on the pre-computed sticky bit by ORing the pre-computed sticky bit and the shifter sticky OR when the alignment counter comprises a value greater than or equal to a predefined value.