6. Floating-Point Unit

6.1 Overview

The FPU operates as a coprocessor for the CPU (it is assigned coprocessor label CP1), and extends the CPU instruction set to perform arithmetic operations on floating-point values.

Figure 6-1 illustrates the functional organization of the FPU.



Figure 6-1 FPU Functional Block Diagram

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