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Foil 13 Example of MIPS R4000 Floating Point

From Master Foilset for HPC Achitecture Overview CPS615 Introduction to Computational Science -- Fall Semester 1998. by Geoffrey C. Fox


1 Taken from David Patterson CS252 Berkeley Fall 1996
2 3 Functional Units FP Adder, FP Multiplier, FP Divider
3 8 Kinds of Stages in FP Units
4 Stage Functional Unit Description
5 A FP Adder Mantissa ADD stage
6 D FP Divider Divide Pipeline stage
7 E FP Multiplier Exception Test stage
8 M FP Multiplier First stage of multiplier
9 N FP Multiplier Second stage of multiplier
10 R FP Adder Rounding stage
11 S FP Adder Operand Shift stage
12 U Unpack Floating point numbers

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