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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 11, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 04, 2014
Cadence Design Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Christopher Rowen, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Teodur Doru Cuturela, San Jose, CA (US);
Xiaoguang Lv, Beijing, CN;
Dan Nicolaescu, Kalamazoo, MI (US);
Pushkar Patwardhan, Cupertino, CA (US);
Manish Ashok Paradkar, Pune, IN;
Pranava Tummala, Pune, IN;
Cadence Design Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A computer implemented method for performing floating point operations as part of a processor architecture that also includes fixed point operations is disclosed. The computer implemented method includes providing a group of instructions within the fixed point architecture. A floating point value is split between two programmer visible registers. In a system and method in accordance with the present invention a new form of floating point representation and associated processor operations, including efficient complex number representations and operations are utilized.