A multi-precision floating-point adder

Ozbilen M. M., GÖK M.

Conference on PhD Research in Microelectronics and Electronics, İstanbul, Turkey, 22 - 25 June 2008, pp.117-120 identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Conference Paper / Full Text
  • Volume:
  • Doi Number: 10.1109/rme.2008.4595739
  • City: İstanbul
  • Country: Turkey
  • Page Numbers: pp.117-120
  • Çukurova University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

This paper presents a multi-precision floating-point adder that can perform a high-precision floating-point addition, or multiple low-precision floating-point additions in parallel. The proposed design eliminates time consuming format conversion operations when it is operating in low-precision modes. The proposed multi-precision floating-point adder has delay approximately equal to a standard double-precision floating-point adder.