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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
6631391 Parallel computer system and parallel computing method Oct. 7, 2003
6615341 Multiple-data bus architecture for a digital signal processor using variable-length instruction set with single instruction simultaneous control Sep. 2, 2003
6606097 Circuit for generating frame buffer values Aug. 12, 2003
6601079 Converting between different floating point exponent representations Jul. 29, 2003
6591361 Method and apparatus for converting data into different ordinal types Jul. 8, 2003
6571264 Floating-point arithmetic device May. 27, 2003
6529928 Floating-point adder performing floating-point and integer operations Mar. 4, 2003
6519694 System for handling load errors having symbolic entity generator to generate symbolic entity and ALU to propagate the symbolic entity Feb. 11, 2003
6516332 Floating point number data processing means Feb. 4, 2003
6502117 Data manipulation instruction for enhancing value and efficiency of complex arithmetic Dec. 31, 2002
6484251 Updating condition status register based on instruction specific modification information in set/clear pair upon instruction commit in out-of-order processor Nov. 19, 2002
6425074 Method and apparatus for rapid execution of FCOM and FSTSW Jul. 23, 2002
6412065 Status register associated with MMX register file for tracking writes Jun. 25, 2002
6397239 Floating point addition pipeline including extreme value, comparison and accumulate functions May. 28, 2002
6393452 Method and apparatus for performing load bypasses in a floating-point unit May. 21, 2002
6388586 Method for reversing the bits of a computer data structure May. 14, 2002
6327604 System and method for floating-point computation Dec. 4, 2001
6317824 Method and apparatus for performing integer operations in response to a result of a floating point operation Nov. 13, 2001
6301594 Method and apparatus for high-speed exponent adjustment and exception generation for normalization of floating-point numbers Oct. 9, 2001
6298367 Floating point addition pipeline including extreme value, comparison and accumulate functions Oct. 2, 2001
6298365 Method and system for bounds comparator Oct. 2, 2001
6289365 System and method for floating-point computation Sep. 11, 2001
6282554 Method and apparatus for floating point operations and format conversion operations Aug. 28, 2001
6253222 Compression of limited range floating point numbers Jun. 26, 2001
6240431 Decompression of limited range floating point numbers May. 29, 2001
6212539 Methods and apparatus for handling and storing bi-endian words in a floating-point processor Apr. 3, 2001
6212627 System for converting packed integer data into packed floating point data in reduced time Apr. 3, 2001
6205460 System and method for floating-computation for numbers in delimited floating point representation Mar. 20, 2001
6195672 Saturation detection in floating point to integer conversions Feb. 27, 2001
6189094 Recirculating register file Feb. 13, 2001
6182100 Method and system for performing a logarithmic estimation within a data processing system Jan. 30, 2001
6178435 Method and system for performing a power of two estimation within a data processing system Jan. 23, 2001
6170001 System for transfering format data from format register to memory wherein format data indicating the distribution of single or double precision data type in the register bank Jan. 2, 2001
6151669 Methods and apparatus for efficient control of floating-point status register Nov. 21, 2000
6148316 Floating point unit equipped also to perform integer addition as well as floating point to integer conversion Nov. 14, 2000
6144977 Circuit and method of converting a floating point number to a programmable fixed point number Nov. 7, 2000
6141670 Apparatus and method useful for evaluating periodic functions Oct. 31, 2000
6122651 Method and apparatus for performing overshifted rotate through carry instructions by shifting in opposite directions Sep. 19, 2000
6105047 Method and apparatus for trading performance for precision when processing denormal numbers in a computer system Aug. 15, 2000
6073155 Floating-point accumulator Jun. 6, 2000
6028893 Method and signal evaluation apparatus for data reduction in the processing of signal values with a digital processing unit in a transmission system Feb. 22, 2000
6029243 Floating-point processor with operand-format precision greater than execution precision Feb. 22, 2000
6009511 Apparatus and method for tagging floating point operands and results for rapid detection of special floating point numbers Dec. 28, 1999
5996056 Apparatus for reducing a computational result to the range boundaries of a signed 8-bit integer in case of overflow Nov. 30, 1999
5995991 Floating point architecture with tagged operands Nov. 30, 1999
5995122 Method and apparatus for parallel conversion of color values from a single precision floating point format to an integer format Nov. 30, 1999
5978901 Floating point and multimedia unit with data type reclassification capability Nov. 2, 1999
5963460 Apparatus for computing transcendental functions quickly Oct. 5, 1999
5954789 Quotient digit selection logic for floating point division/square root Sep. 21, 1999
5940311 Immediate floating-point operand reformatting in a microprocessor Aug. 17, 1999

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