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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 2014
Filed:
May. 05, 2011
Hyeong-seok Yu, Seoul, KR;
Suk-jin Kim, Seoul, KR;
Sang-su Park, Chungcheongnam-do, KR;
Yong-surk Lee, Seoul, KR;
Hyeong-Seok Yu, Seoul, KR;
Suk-Jin Kim, Seoul, KR;
Sang-Su Park, Chungcheongnam-do, KR;
Yong-Surk Lee, Seoul, KR;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Yonsei University, Seoul, KR;
Abstract
An apparatus and method for converting data between a floating-point number and an integer is provided. The apparatus includes a data converter configured to determine a sign of input binary data and an output format to which to convert the input binary data and convert the input binary data into a one's complement number based on the sign and the output format of the input binary data, a bias value generator configured to determine whether the input binary data has been rounded up based on a rounding mode of the input binary data and generate a bias value accordingly; and an adder configured to convert the input binary data into a two's complement number by adding the one's complement number and the bias value.