MUMBAI, India, July 24 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202647085642 A) filed by Qualcomm Incorporated on July 13, 2026, for Performing Floating-Point Operations Using An Expanded-Range Floating- Point Format In Processor Devices.
Inventor includes Gruber, Andrew Evan.
The application for the patent was published on July 17, 2026, under issue no. 29/2026.
Abstract: Performing floating-point operations using an expanded-range floating-point format in processor devices is disclosed herein. In some aspects, a processor device comprises a floating-point unit (FPU) that is configured to perform a floating-point operation using one or more floating-point values interpreted by the FPU according to an expanded-range floating-point format that comprises no sign bit, a plurality of exponent bits including an additional exponent bit relative to a corresponding standard floating-point format, and a plurality of significand bits. The expanded-range floating-point format comprises a same number of bits as the corresponding standard floating-point format. A count of the plurality of significand bits of the expanded-range floating-point format is identical to a count of a plurality of significand bits of the corresponding standard floating-point format, and the significand bits of the expanded-range floating-point format are interpreted in a manner identical to the significand bits of the corresponding standard floating-point format.
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