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Digital Arithmetic
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Digital Arithmetic

by Miloš D. Ercegovac, Tomás Lang
September 2003
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
709 pages
26h 51m
English
Morgan Kaufmann
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Floating-Point Addition
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( Add significands )
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Special cases
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FIGURE 8.7
Dependence graph for basic implementation of floating-point addition.
one double-path implementation. Other variations are described in the references
listed at the end of the chapter.
Single-Path Implementation 16
This implementation is shown in Figure 8.8. It results from the following changes
to the basic implementation considered before:
1. The sign-and-magnitude addition is performed using a two's complement
adder. When an effective subtraction is performed, one of the operands is
complemented (bit-inversion ...
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