The Fused Multiply-Add Instruction

Jean-Michel Muller (), Nicolas Brisebarre (), Florent de Dinechin (), Claude-Pierre Jeannerod (), Vincent Lefèvre (), Guillaume Melquiond (), Nathalie Revol (), Damien Stehlé () and Serge Torres ()
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Jean-Michel Muller: École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, CNRS, Laboratoire LIP
Nicolas Brisebarre: École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, CNRS, Laboratoire LIP
Florent de Dinechin: École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, ENSL, Laboratoire LIP
Claude-Pierre Jeannerod: École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, INRIA, Laboratoire LIP
Vincent Lefèvre: École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, INRIA, Laboratoire LIP
Guillaume Melquiond: Parc Orsay Université, INRIA Saclay – Île-de- France
Nathalie Revol: École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, INRIA, Laboratoire LIP
Damien Stehlé: Macquarie University, and University of Sydney School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Sydney, CNRS
Serge Torres: École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, ENSL, Laboratoire LIP

Chapter Chapter 5 in Handbook of Floating-Point Arithmetic, 2010, pp 151-179 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The fused multiply-add (FMA) instruction makes it possible to evaluate ab + c, where a, b, and c are floating-point numbers, with one final rounding only.

Keywords: Quadratic Convergence; Division Algorithm; Internal Format; Intermediate Calculation; Raphson Iteration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1007/978-0-8176-4705-6_5

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