Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Decimal floating-point fused multiply-add unit
- Patent Title (中): 十进制浮点融合乘法单元
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Application No.: US13177549Application Date: 2011-07-06
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Publication No.: US08694572B2Publication Date: 2014-04-08
- Inventor: Rodina Samy , Hossam Ali Hassan Fahmy , Tarek Eldeeb , Ramy Raafat , Yasmeen Farouk , Mostafa Elkhouly , Amira Mohamed
- Applicant: Rodina Samy , Hossam Ali Hassan Fahmy , Tarek Eldeeb , Ramy Raafat , Yasmeen Farouk , Mostafa Elkhouly , Amira Mohamed
- Applicant Address: EG Cairo
- Assignee: SilMinds, LLC, Egypt
- Current Assignee: SilMinds, LLC, Egypt
- Current Assignee Address: EG Cairo
- Agency: Osha Liang LLP
- Main IPC: G06F7/38
- IPC: G06F7/38

Abstract:
A decimal floating-point Fused-Multiply-Add (FMA) unit that performs the operation of ±(A×B)±C on decimal floating-point operands. The decimal floating-point FMA unit executes the multiplication and addition operations compliant with the IEEE 754-2008 standard. Specifically, the decimal floating-point FMA includes a parallel multiplier and injects the addend after required alignment as an additional partial product in the reduction tree used in the parallel multiplier. The decimal floating-point FMA unit may be configured to perform addition-subtraction operations or multiplication operations as standalone operations.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120011181A1 DECIMAL FLOATING-POINT FUSED MULTIPLY-ADD UNIT Public/Granted day:2012-01-12
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