The S/390 G5 Floating Point Unit Supporting Hex and Binary Architectures

  • Authors:
  • Eric M. Schwarz;Ronald M. Smith;Christopher A. Krygowski

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ARITH '99 Proceedings of the 14th IEEE Symposium on Computer Arithmetic
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

Advances in computer hardware often have little impact until they become accessible to programmers using high-level languages. For example, the IEEE floating-point arithmetic standard provides various rounding modes and exceptions, but it is difficult ...