作者: Jean-Michel Muller , Nicolas Brunie , Florent de Dinechin , Claude-Pierre Jeannerod , Mioara Joldes
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-76526-6_9
关键词: Binary number 、 Significand 、 Floating point 、 Hardware register 、 Arithmetic 、 Computer science 、 Arbitrary-precision arithmetic 、 Critical path method 、 Software 、 Adder
摘要: The previous chapter has presented the basic paradigms used for implementing floating-point arithmetic in hardware. However, some processors may not have such dedicated hardware, mainly cost reasons. When it is necessary to handle numbers on processors, one solution implement software.