• DocumentCode
    3147729
  • Title

    IEEE 754-2008 Decimal Floating-Point for Intel® Architecture Processors

  • Author

    Cornea, Marius

  • Author_Institution
    Intel Corp., Santa Clara, CA, USA
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    8-10 June 2009
  • Firstpage
    225
  • Lastpage
    228
  • Abstract
    A brief description is provided of the decimal floating-point support available for Intelreg Architecture processors, compliant with the IEEE Standard 754-2008 for Floating-Point Arithmetic. Some performance results are included.
  • Keywords
    IEEE standards; floating point arithmetic; microprocessor chips; IEEE standard 754-2008; Intel architecture processor; decimal floating-point support; floating-point arithmetic; Application software; Computer architecture; Coprocessors; Digital arithmetic; Encoding; Floating-point arithmetic; IEC standards; Software libraries; Testing; Writing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Computer Arithmetic, 2009. ARITH 2009. 19th IEEE Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Portland, OR
  • ISSN
    1063-6889
  • Print_ISBN
    978-0-7695-3670-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ARITH.2009.35
  • Filename
    5223319