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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 26, 2013
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2006
Applicant:
Kenneth Alan Dockser, Cary, NC (US);
Inventor:
Kenneth Alan Dockser, Cary, NC (US);
Assignee:
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/38 (2006.01); G06F 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and apparatus for performing a floating-point operation with a floating-point processor having a given precision is disclosed. A subprecision for the floating-point operation on one or more floating-point numbers is selected. The selection of the subprecision results in one or more excess bits for each of the one or more floating-point numbers. Power may be removed from one or more components in the floating-point processor that would otherwise be used to store or process the one or more excess bits, and the floating-point operation is performed with power removed from the one or more components.