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 |