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The Definitive Guide to ARM® Cortex®-M3 and Cortex®-M4 Processors, 3rd Edition
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The Definitive Guide to ARM® Cortex®-M3 and Cortex®-M4 Processors, 3rd Edition

by Joseph Yiu
October 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
864 pages
23h 12m
English
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Chapter 13

Floating Point Operations

Abstract

This chapters gives a introduction to floating point numbers, followed by a introduction to the Floating Point Unit (FPU) on the ARM® Cortex®-M4 processor and its programmer’s model. It then covers details of the lazy stacking feature which is designed to reduce interrupt latency, and then covers various topics about the use of the FPU in programming.

Keywords

Floating point; single precision; double precision; Not-a-Number (NaN); exception; lazy stacking; linkage; ABI; rounding modes

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ISBN: 9780124080829