International Business Machines Corporation
FLOATING POINT COMPUTATION FOR HYBRID FORMATS

Abstract:

Various embodiments are provided for performing hybrid precision floating point format computation via a simplified superset floating point unit in a computing system. One or more inputs, represented as a plurality of floating point number formats, may be converted into a superset floating point format prior to computation by one or more simplified superset floating point units (ssFPUs). A compute operation may be performed on the one or more inputs represented as the superset floating point format using the one or more ssFPUs.