Invention Publication
- Patent Title: TININESS DETECTION
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Application No.: US17855856Application Date: 2022-07-01
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Publication No.: US20240004611A1Publication Date: 2024-01-04
- Inventor: Michael Alexander KENNEDY , Marco MONTAGNA , Karel Hubertus Gerardus WALTERS , Ian Michael CAULFIELD
- Applicant: Arm Limited
- Applicant Address: GB Cambridge
- Assignee: Arm Limited
- Current Assignee: Arm Limited
- Current Assignee Address: GB Cambridge
- Main IPC: G06F7/483
- IPC: G06F7/483

Abstract:
Processing circuitry performs a processing operation to generate a two's complement result value representing a positive or negative number in two's complement representation. Normalization-and-rounding circuitry converts the two's complement result value to a normalized-and-rounded floating-point result value represented using sign-magnitude representation. The normalization-and-rounding circuitry comprises incrementing circuitry to perform an increment addition (e.g. a rounding increment or a conversion increment) to generate a fraction of the normalized-and-rounded floating-point result value. For an operation where the increment addition is required to be performed, tininess detection circuitry detects the after-rounding tininess status based on a still-to-be-incremented version of the normalized-and-rounded floating-point result value prior to the increment addition by the increment circuitry.
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