The IEEE Standard 754-1985 for Binary Floating-Point Arithmetic [1] was revised [2], and an important addition is the definition of decimal floating-point arithmetic. This is inte...
Marius Cornea, Cristina Anderson, John Harrison, P...
With continued reductions in feature size, additional functionality may be added to future microprocessors to boost the performance of important application domains. Due to growth...
The draft revision of the IEEE Standard for FloatingPoint Arithmetic (IEEE P754) includes a definition for decimal floating-point (FP) in addition to the widely used binary FP s...
IEEE 754r is the ongoing revision to the IEEE 754 floating point standard. A major enhancement to the standard is the addition of decimal format, thus the design of BCD arithmetic...