Texas Instruments TMS320C3x - Manual (Page 143)

Normalization Using the NORM Instruction
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Figure 5–18. Flowchart for NORM Instruction Operation
Test for special cases of c (man)
c(exp) = –128
(1)
α ( man) = 0
Test for special cases of c (exp)
(6)
c (exp)
underflow
(7)
c (exp) in
range
c (exp) = –128
No change to
c (man)
Set c to final result
c = norm( α )
(8)
(9)
(3)
Sign-extended
α
( man) 1 bit
c (man) =
α
( man) < < k
c (exp) = α
( exp) – k
(4)
k = # of leading
nonsignificant
sign bits
α
Remove most significant nonsign bit
(5)
Leading nonsignificant sign bits
(2)