Decreasing feature sizes allow additional functionality to be added to future microprocessors to improve the performance of important application domains. As a result of rapid gro...
Interest in decimal arithmetic increased considerably in recent years. This paper presents new designs for decimal floating point (DFP) addition, multiplication, fused multiplyad...
Hossam A. H. Fahmy, Ramy Raafat, Amira M. Abdel-Ma...
A brief description is provided of the decimal floating-point support available for Intel® Architecture processors, compliant with the IEEE Standard 754-2008 for Floating-Point A...
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...
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...