Christina Anderson

US Patent:

20150088946, Mar 26, 2015

Filed:

Dec 28, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/977086

Inventors:

Christina S. Anderson - Hillsboro OR, US
Amit Gradstein - Binyamina, IL
Robert Valentine - Kiryat Tivon, IL
Simon Rubanovich - Haifa, IL
Benny Eitan - Haifa, IL

International Classification:

G06F 7/483

US Classification:

708208

Abstract:

A method of an aspect includes receiving a floating point scaling instruction. The floating point scaling instruction indicates a first source including one or more floating point data elements, a second source including one or more corresponding floating point data elements, and a destination. A result is stored in the destination in response to the floating point scaling instruction. The result includes one or more corresponding result floating point data elements each including a corresponding floating point data element of the second source multiplied by a base of the one or more floating point data elements of the first source raised to a power of an integer representative of the corresponding floating point data element of the first source. Other methods, apparatus, systems, and instructions are disclosed.