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US 2014/0052767 A1Published application
Apparatus and architecture for general powering computation
AssigneeUniversidade De Santiago De Compostela
InventorsJavier Diaz Brugueira, Alvaro Vazquez Alvarez
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Abstract
An apparatus for general powering computation is disclosed. The apparatus is capable of computing a powering function of a floating-point number with an unrestricted exponent. The unrestricted exponent can be a fixed-point or a floating-point exponent. Additionally, the unrestricted exponent can be an inverse of a number in order to enable for q-th root computation using the same hardware processor and architecture.
Claims8
An apparatus for general powering computation comprising:
- (a) a plurality of memory elements;
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- (b) a hardware processor configured for computing a powering function XZ of a floating-point number X, wherein Z is an unrestricted exponent.
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