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Standard-compliant Decimal Floating Point Adder / Subtractor

Thesis Title: 
Standard-compliant Decimal Floating Point Adder / Subtractor
Name: 
Ghada Mohamed Awad El-Gendy
Date of Birth: 
Fri, 08/12/1967
Nationality: 
Egyptian
Degree: 
Master
Previous Degrees: 
B.Sc. (ELC) 1990 – Cairo
Registration Date: 
Tue, 01/10/2002
Awarding Date: 
Tue, 15/12/2009
Examiners: 

Dr. Wahdan, A. A.
Dr. Qamar, I. M.
Dr. Habib, S. E.

Key Words: 

Floating points, Subtractors, Decimal numbers, Rounding testing

Summary: 

The design performs addition and subtraction on 64-bit operands in a single path
adder with exception and rounding handling fulfilling the final version of the
IEEE Standard for Floating-Point Arithmetic P754 which was published in
August 2008. We introduced two different implementations for the BCD-adder,
BCD-subtractor internal design as well as different architecture. Complete test
and verification is performed on all the design versions fulfilling 3063 test vectors
supplied by IBM Corp. and supporting 2 extra rounding modes proposed by
IBM.