Research Article

NULL Convention Floating Point Multiplier

Table 4

Sequence of operations and the corresponding results.

Sequence of operationsOperation result
Sign bitExponent bitsSignificand mantissa

Sign bits XOR (sign)1
Exponent adder (E)100000100
Exponent bias 127 (IE)010000101
Mantissa multiplication (IP)10.0110101111000001011011 
11101011111110100100010
Intermediate product shifter (P_n)1.00110101111000001011011 
11101011111110100100010
Exponent incrementer (E_n)10000110
Normalized final product (product)1100001101.00110101111000001011011 
11101011111110100100010

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