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Floating-point unit

Known as: Floating Point Unit, Math coprocessor, Floating-Point Processor 
A floating-point unit (FPU, colloquially a math coprocessor) is a part of a computer system specially designed to carry out operations on floating… 
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2015
2015
UPGMpp: a Software Library for Contextual Object Recognition
Universidad de Malaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucia Tech. Spanish grant program FPU-MICINN 2010 and the Spanish… 
2011
2011
The POWER7 Binary Floating-Point Unit
The binary Floating-Point Unit (FPU) of the POWER7 processor is a 5.5 cycle Fused Multiply-Add (FMA) design, fully compliant with… 
2010
2010
Design of Generic Floating Point Multiplier and Adder/Subtractor Units
A high speed generic Floating Point Unit (FPU) consisting of a multiplier and adder/subtractor units is proposed. A novel… 
2008
2008
Characterization of Conflicts in Log-Based Transactional Memory (LogTM)
The difficulty of multithreaded programming remains a major obstacle for programmers to fully exploit multicore chips… 
2007
2007
Binary Floating-Point Unit
The floating point unit of the next generation PowerPC is detailed. It has been tested at over 5 GHz. The design supports an… 
2005
2005
Design and exploitation of a high-performance SIMD floating-point unit for Blue Gene/L
We describe the design of a dual-issue single-instruction, multiple-data-like (SIMD-like) extension of the IBM PowerPC® 440… 
2001
2001
1 GHz HAL SPARC64/sup R/ Dual Floating Point Unit with RAS features
An IEEE compliant, 1 GHz Sparc64-V Floating-Point Unit (FPU) with reliability-accessibility-serviceability (RAS) features and… 
Review
1999
Review
1999
A review of the state-ofthe-art of the methanol crossover in direct methanol fuel cells
Ž . Ž . Direct oxidation methanol fuel cells DMFCs are attractive for several applications, however, there are several barriers… 
1996
1996
The floating-point unit of the PowerPC 603e microprocessor
The IBM PowerPC 603e floating-point unit (FPU) is an on-chip functional unit to support IEEE 754 standard single- and double… 
Highly Cited
1988
Highly Cited
1988
A 33 Mflops Floating Point Processor Using Redundant Binary Representation
A 33MFLOPS single precision floating point processor that uses the redundant binary representation in a multiplier (FMUL) and a… 
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