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Floating Point Unit

This unit contains the data paths and the control logic to execute all instructions relating to floating points, and partitioned fixed-point data type instructions (graphics). At any given time, three data paths can concurrently execute floating point or graphic instructions, one each per cycle from the following classes: Divide/multiply, Add/subtract/compare, An independent division data path.

Anandha Gopalan 2001-12-01