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Number: 708/495
Name: Electrical computers: arithmetic processing and calculating > Electrical digital calculating computer > Particular function performed > Arithmetical operation > Floating point
Description: Subject matter wherein the numerical digits are expressed in terms of a bounded number (mantissa) and a scale factor (characteristic or exponent) consisting of a power of the number base.


Sub-classes under this class:

Class Number Class Name Patents
708/505 Addition or subtraction 171
708/496 Compensation for finite word length 37
708/511 Complex number format 8
708/504 Division 64
708/500 Evaluation of root 48
708/506 Feedback 5
708/512 Logarithmic format 14
708/514 Matrix array 20
708/510 Microprocessor 41
708/501 Multiplication followed by addition 117
708/503 Multiplication 76
708/507 Parallel 27
708/508 Pipeline 45
708/502 Reciprocal 36
708/509 Systolic 6
708/513 Variable length or precision 47


Patents under this class:
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Patent Number Title Of Patent Date Issued
7571435 Method and structure for producing high performance linear algebra routines using preloading of floating point registers Aug. 4, 2009
7475103 Efficient check node message transform approximation for LDPC decoder Jan. 6, 2009
7461116 Emulation of a fixed point operation using a corresponding floating point operation Dec. 2, 2008
7448026 Method and apparatus for accuracy-aware analysis Nov. 4, 2008
7430656 System and method of converting data formats and communicating between execution units Sep. 30, 2008
7406589 Processor having efficient function estimate instructions Jul. 29, 2008
7397399 Method and device for transcoding N-bit words into M-bit words with M smaller N Jul. 8, 2008
7395296 Circuitry and method for performing non-arithmetic operations Jul. 1, 2008
7389499 Method and apparatus for automatically converting numeric data to a processor efficient format for performing arithmetic operations Jun. 17, 2008
7373489 Apparatus and method for floating-point exception prediction and recovery May. 13, 2008
7330864 System and method for using native floating point microprocessor instructions to manipulate 16-bit floating point data representations Feb. 12, 2008
7321914 Fast method for calculating powers of two as a floating point data type Jan. 22, 2008
7299170 Method and apparatus for the emulation of high precision floating point instructions Nov. 20, 2007
7236999 Methods and systems for computing the quotient of floating-point intervals Jun. 26, 2007
7228324 Circuit for selectively providing maximum or minimum of a pair of floating point operands Jun. 5, 2007
7219117 Methods and systems for computing floating-point intervals May. 15, 2007
7212959 Method and apparatus for accumulating floating point values May. 1, 2007
7191202 Comparator unit for comparing values of floating point operands Mar. 13, 2007
7133890 Total order comparator unit for comparing values of two floating point operands Nov. 7, 2006
7113969 Formatting denormal numbers for processing in a pipelined floating point unit Sep. 26, 2006
7099851 Applying term consistency to an equality constrained interval global optimization problem Aug. 29, 2006
7069289 Floating point unit for detecting and representing inexact computations without flags or traps Jun. 27, 2006
7069288 Floating point system with improved support of interval arithmetic Jun. 27, 2006
7058830 Power saving in a floating point unit using a multiplier and aligner bypass Jun. 6, 2006
7054898 Elimination of end-around-carry critical path in floating point add/subtract execution unit May. 30, 2006
7051060 Operand conversion optimization May. 23, 2006
7016928 Floating point status information testing circuit Mar. 21, 2006
6996596 Floating-point processor with operating mode having improved accuracy and high performance Feb. 7, 2006
6993549 System and method for performing gloating point operations involving extended exponents Jan. 31, 2006
6990505 Method/apparatus for conversion of higher order bits of 64-bit integer to floating point using 53-bit adder hardware Jan. 24, 2006
6976050 System and method for extracting the high part of a floating point operand Dec. 13, 2005
6970897 Self-timed transmission system and method for processing multiple data sets Nov. 29, 2005
6963895 Floating point pipeline method and circuit for fast inverse square root calculations Nov. 8, 2005
6922771 Vector floating point unit Jul. 26, 2005
6912557 Math coprocessor Jun. 28, 2005
6904543 Electronic control having floating-point data check function Jun. 7, 2005
6904446 Floating point multiplier/accumulator with reduced latency and method thereof Jun. 7, 2005
6898615 Signal processing unit and signal processing method including using an exponent part and a mantissa part for power generation May. 24, 2005
6847378 System and method for performing scale and bias operations by preclamping input image data Jan. 25, 2005
6842765 Processor design for extended-precision arithmetic Jan. 11, 2005
6842764 Minimum and maximum operations to facilitate interval multiplication and/or interval division Jan. 11, 2005
6801924 Formatting denormal numbers for processing in a pipelined floating point unit Oct. 5, 2004
6789098 Method, data processing system and computer program for comparing floating point numbers Sep. 7, 2004
6754688 Method and apparatus to calculate the difference of two numbers Jun. 22, 2004
6732134 Handler for floating-point denormalized numbers May. 4, 2004
6687810 Method and apparatus for staggering execution of a single packed data instruction using the same circuit Feb. 3, 2004
6683530 Method and apparatus for performing a floating point compare operation Jan. 27, 2004
6671796 Converting an arbitrary fixed point value to a floating point value Dec. 30, 2003
6658443 Method and apparatus for representing arithmetic intervals within a computer system Dec. 2, 2003
6647401 High speed emulation of arithmetic operations Nov. 11, 2003

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