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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 2015
Filed:
Aug. 04, 2011
Applicants:
Mark J. Hickey, Rochester, MN (US);
Adam J. Muff, Rochester, MN (US);
Matthew R. Tubbs, Rochester, MN (US);
Charles D. Wait, Byron, MN (US);
Inventors:
Mark J. Hickey, Rochester, MN (US);
Adam J. Muff, Rochester, MN (US);
Matthew R. Tubbs, Rochester, MN (US);
Charles D. Wait, Byron, MN (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/38 (2006.01); G06F 7/44 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A floating point execution unit is capable of selectively repurposing one or more adders in an exponent path of the floating point execution unit to perform fixed point addition operations, thereby providing fixed point functionality in the floating point execution unit.