US 11,861,325 B2
Repurposed hexadecimal floating point data path
Nicol Hofmann, Leinfelden-Echterdingen (DE); Michael Klein, Schoenaich (DE); Petra Leber, Ehningen (DE); and Kerstin Claudia Schelm, Stuttgart (DE)
Assigned to International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US)
Filed by International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US)
Filed on Sep. 21, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/480,180.
Application 17/480,180 is a division of application No. 16/527,138, filed on Jul. 31, 2019, granted, now 11,188,299.
Prior Publication US 2022/0004361 A1, Jan. 6, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 5/01 (2006.01); G06F 7/499 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 5/012 (2013.01) [G06F 7/49947 (2013.01); G06F 2207/3844 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
dividing a fraction of a floating point result into a first portion and a second portion;
outputting a first normalizer result based on the first portion during a first designated computer clock cycle;
storing, via a latch having a bit width size that can retain a first segment of the first portion, the first segment of the first portion during the first designated computer clock cycle;
outputting a first rounder result based on the first normalizer result during the first designated computer clock cycle;
outputting a second normalizer result based on the second portion during a second designated computer clock cycle; and
outputting a second rounder result based on the second normalizer result and the first segment during the second designated computer clock cycle.