HIGH SPEED FLOATING-POINT UNIT

Patent №

US 4,800,516

Granted

1989-01-24

Filed 1986

Owner

AMDAHL CORPORATION, 1250 EAST ARQUES AVE., SUNNYVALE, CA., A CORP. OF DE.

Lab

AI components

1

hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

06925997

In a floating point arithmetic unit, high speed computation is achieved by providing logic for determining whether operands of an instruction have a predetermined condition with respect to the instruction and logic responsive thereto for bypassing selective primitive operations when such predetermined condition exists.

AI hardwareG06F 7/483G06F 7/49936G06F 2207/3868

AI classification

AI hardware1.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Natural language0.00
Machine learning0.00
Vision0.00
Knowledge representation0.00
Speech0.00
Planning0.00

Ownership

AMDAHL CORPORATION, 1250 EAST ARQUES AVE., SUNNYVALE, CA., A CORP. OF DE.

assignment · 47100112

Assignors

SI, STEPHEN S. C., LEE, H. P. SHERMAN, RAWLINSON, STEPHEN J.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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