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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 14, 2014
Oracle International Corporation, Redwood City, CA (US);
Jeffrey S Brooks, Austin, TX (US);
Christopher H Olson, Austin, TX (US);
Eugene Karichkin, Fremont, CA (US);
Oracle International Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of a processor are disclosed for performing arithmetic operations on variable-length and fixed-length machine independent numbers. The processor may include a floating point unit, and a logic circuit. The number unit may be configured to receive an operation, and first and second operands. Each of the first and second operands may include a sign byte, and multiple mantissa bytes, and may be processed in response to a determination that the operands are fixed-length numbers. The logic circuit may be further configured to perform the received operation on the processed first and second operands.