DETECTION OF POTENTIAL NEED TO USE A LARGER DATA FORMAT IN PERFORMING FLOATING POINT OPERATIONS

Patent №

US 8,560,591

Granted

2013-10-15

Filed 2007

Owner

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

AI components

1

hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

11740165

Detection of whether a result of a floating point operation is safe. Characteristics of the result are examined to determine whether the result is safe or potentially unsafe, as defined by the user. An instruction is provided to facilitate detection of safe or potentially unsafe results.

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Ownership

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

assignment · 192380345

Assignors

LUNDVALL, SHAWN D., SMITH, RONALD M., SR., YEH, PHIL C.

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