This Unit: Floating Point Arithmetic

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CIS371 (Roth/Martin): Floating Point1CIS 371Computer Organization and DesignUnit 7: Floating PointCIS371 (Roth/Martin): Floating Point2This Unit: Floating Point Arithmetic Formats Precision and range IEEE 754 standard Operations Addition and subtraction Multiplication and division Error analysis Error and bias Rounding and truncationCPUMemI/OSystem softwareAppAppAppCIS371 (Roth/Martin): Floating Point3Readings P+H Chapter and (Roth/Martin): Floating Point4Floating Point (FP) Numbers Floating Point numbers: numbers in scientific notation Two uses Use I: real numbers (numbers with non-zero fractions) * 10 34 Use II: really big numbers * 108 * 1023 Aside: best not used for currency valuesCIS371 (Roth/Martin): Floating Point5The Land Before Floating Point Early computers were built for scientific calculations ENIAC: ballistic firing tables.

•Many embedded chips today lack floating point hardware •Programmers built scale factors into programs •Large constant multiplier turns all FP numbers to integers •inputs multiplied by scale factor manually •Outputs divided by scale factor manually •Sometimes called fixed point arithmetic CIS371 (Roth/Martin): Floating Point 6

  Points, Fixed, Fixed point