Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Exception generation when generating a result value with programmable bit significance
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Application No.: US14582978Application Date: 2014-12-24
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Publication No.: US09703529B2Publication Date: 2017-07-11
- Inventor: David Raymond Lutz , Neil Burgess , Christopher Neal Hinds
- Applicant: ARM Limited
- Applicant Address: GB Cambridge
- Assignee: ARM Limited
- Current Assignee: ARM Limited
- Current Assignee Address: GB Cambridge
- Agency: Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.
- Main IPC: G06F7/499
- IPC: G06F7/499 ; G06F7/483 ; G06F9/30 ; G06F17/16 ; H03M7/12 ; H03M7/24 ; G06F11/34 ; G06F11/36 ; G06F5/01 ; G06F7/38 ; G06F7/48 ; G06F7/507 ; G06F9/38 ; G06F7/506
Abstract:
A data processing system performs processing operations upon input operand(s) having a programmable bit significance. Exception generating circuitry generates exception indications representing exceptions such as overflow, underflow and inexact in respect of a result value having the programmable bit significance.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160124714A1 EXCEPTION GENERATION WHEN GENERATING A RESULT VALUE WITH PROGRAMMABLE BIT SIGNIFICANCE Public/Granted day:2016-05-05
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