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T1 Floating Point Square Root under HUB Format
A1 Villalba-Moreno, Julio
A1 Hormigo-Aguilar, Javier
K1 Arquitectura de ordenadores
AB Unit-Biased (HUB) is an emerging format based onshifting the representation line of the binary numbers by halfunit in the last place. The HUB format is specially relevantfor computers where rounding to nearest is required becauseit is performed simply by truncation. From a hardware pointof view, the circuits implementing this representation save botharea and time since rounding does not involve any carry propagation.Designs to perform the four basic operations have beenproposed under HUB format recently. Nevertheless, the squareroot operation has not been confronted yet. In this paper wepresent an architecture to carry out the square root operationunder HUB format for floating point numbers. The results ofthis work keep supporting the fact that the HUB representationinvolves simpler hardware than its conventional counterpart forcomputers requiring round-to-nearest mode.
YR 2017
FD 2017-09-26
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10630/14526
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10630/14526
LA eng
NO Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 20 ene 2026