Title :
Analysis and Research of Floating-Point Exceptions
Author :
Hong, Xia ; Chongyang, Wang ; Jiangyu, Yan
Author_Institution :
School of Control and Computer Engineering, North China Electric Power University (NCEPU), Beijing, China, 102206
Abstract :
This article analyzes the definition of exceptions in IEEE STD 754 and specific implementation standards of them from the perspective of circuit design. Besides, handling principles and methods of exceptions in different floating-point operations are proposed in this paper.
Keywords :
Circuit synthesis; Computer architecture; Computers; Floating-point arithmetic; IEEE standards; Licenses; NAN; division by zero; exception; floating-point; inexact; invalid operation; overflow; underflow;
Conference_Titel :
Information Science and Engineering (ICISE), 2010 2nd International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Hangzhou, China
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7616-9
DOI :
10.1109/ICISE.2010.5690343
