Motorola DSP96002 - Manual (Page 747)

C-24 DSP96002 USER’S MANUAL MOTOROLA
positions (3 bit shift).
The exponent comparator and update unit consists of an 11 bit subtracter, which compares the two expo-
nents of the floating point operands, and delivers the difference to the barrel shifter for mantissa alignment.
The largest of the two exponents is delivered to the exponent update unit. The exponent update unit may
update this exponent for normalization of the result, after which the exponent (biased) is stored in the high
portion of the destination register. This is depicted in Figure C-22.
For example, if the mantissa of the first operand in a floating point addition is 1.010...0, with biased exponent
of 10, and the mantissa of the second operand is 1.000...0000, with biased exponent of 13, the exponent
comparator simply delivers the difference (=3) to the barrel shifter, the first operand’s mantissa is aligned to
0.001010...0, the two mantissas are added to deliver 1.001010...0, and the result (biased) exponent equals
13. The postnormalization unit does not need to postnormalize the result in this case.
If the first operand’s mantissa is 1.010...0 with biased exponent of 13 and the second operand’s mantissa
is 1.000...0 with biased exponent of 13, the exponent difference is zero and the barrel shifter does not need
to realign the mantissas. The result after addition is now equal to 10.010...0, which needs to be postnormal-
ized by adding one to the result exponent. The exponent update unit sets the result exponent (biased) equal
to 14 and the result mantissa is 1.0010...0.
Finally, if the first operand’s mantissa in a floating point subtraction is 1.010...0 with biased exponent of 10,
and the second operand’s mantissa is 1.00...0 with a biased exponent of 10, the result mantissa after sub-
traction is -0.010...0. This is not normalized, and the postnormalization unit subtracts two from the exponent.
The result mantissa is -1.000...0 with a biased exponent equal to 8.
Exponent Adder Multiplier Array Control
ES1 ES2 MS1 MS2
ED MD