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Arithmetic Pipeline Stages
3 stages for addition
Exponent comparison and mantissa adjustment (shift)
[
m
x
*2
e
x
-e
y
]
Mantissa addition (add)
[[ ]
+m
y
]
Mantissa normalization and exponent readjustment
[[ ]
*2
e
y
]
Problem: How to continuously feed floating point unit (FPU) with stream of operations?
Author:
Wolfgang Schreiner
Last modification: November 15, 1996