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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 2016
Filed:
Nov. 26, 2013
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Maarten J. Boersma, Holzgerlingen, DE;
Thomas Fuchs, Bietigheim-Bissingen, DE;
Markus Kaltenbach, Holzgerlingen, DE;
David Lang, Tuebingen, DE;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A hardware circuit for returning single precision denormal results to double precision. A hardware circuit component configured to count leading zeros of an unrounded single precision denormal result. A hardware circuit component configured to pre-compute a first exponent and a second exponent for the unrounded single precision denormal result. A hardware circuit component configured to perform a second normalization of the rounded single precision denormal result back to architected format.