Title :
A multi-precision floating-point adder
Author :
Ozbilen, Metin Mete ; Gok, Mustafa
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Eng., Mersin Univ., Mersin
fDate :
June 22 2008-April 25 2008
Abstract :
This paper presents a multi-precision floating-point adder that can perform a high-precision floating-point addition, or multiple low-precision floating-point additions in parallel. The proposed design eliminates time consuming format conversion operations when it is operating in low-precision modes. The proposed multi-precision floating-point adder has delay approximately equal to a standard double-precision floating-point adder.
Keywords :
floating point arithmetic; area; delay; design; format conversion operations; low-precision modes; multiprecision floating-point adder; type conversion requirement; Added delay; Adders; Concurrent computing; Degradation; Detectors; Digital signal processing; Graphics; Hardware; High performance computing; Manufacturing;
Conference_Titel :
Research in Microelectronics and Electronics, 2008. PRIME 2008. Ph.D.
Conference_Location :
Istanbul
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1983-8
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1984-5
DOI :
10.1109/RME.2008.4595739
