Motorola DSP96002 - Manual (Page 766)

D-14 DSP96002 USER’S MANUAL MOTOROLA
One should notice that both single and double precision floating-point moves out of the register will produce
correct results in this case.
D.1.5.1.1.2 SP Move Of A SP Denormalized Number
This section describes what happens when a 32-bit source (denormalized single precision) is writen by a
single precision floating-point move and the data is stored in a Data ALU floating-point register D0-D9. Fol-
SP move into the register
0 01111111 0000 ..... 00
inv
0 0 0 Zero 01111111111 1 0000 ............................. 00
SP read of the register
0 0 0 Zero 01111111111 1 0000 ............................. 00
\ /
0 01111111 0000 ..... 00 Data read correctly
(read as 1.0)
DP read of the register
0 0 0 Zero 01111111111 1 0000 ............................. 00
\ /
/ \
0 01111111111 0000 ...... 00 Data read correctly
(read as 1.0)
\ /
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