A floating point unit for the 68040
S. McCloud, David Ebo Anderson, C. DeWitt, C.N. Hinds, Y.-W. Ho, D. Marquette, E.E. Quintana · 2002
The Motorola 68040 floating point unit (FPU) combines three independent state machines, two data paths, and over 100000 transistors to achieve 8-Mflops peak performance and over 3-Mflops Linpack double-precision performance at the introductory speed of 25 MHz. It is optimized for minimum latency and maximum pipelined performance on frequently used double-precision floating point instructions. The FPU is architecturally divided into three piped stages, the conversion unit (CU), the execution unit (XU), and the normalization unit (NU). The control logic is tested using scan to achieve very high ATPG fault coverage while the data paths are tested using functional patterns.>