Floating-Point Formats
5-13
Data Formats and Floating-Point Operation
Figure 5–12. Converting from Single-Precision Floating-Point Format
to Extended-Precision Floating-Point Format
Single-precision floating-point format
Extended-precision floating-point format
0
y
x
x
y
y
y
x
x
31
24 23 22
0
39
32
30
31
0
y
y
0
8
7
The 8 LSBs of the mantissa field are filled with 0s.
Figure 5–13. Converting from Extended-Precision Floating-Point Format
to Single-Precision Floating-Point Format
Extended-precision floating-point format
z
y
x
x
39
32
30
31
0
y
y
z
8
7
Single-precision floating-point format
y
y
y
x
x
31
24 23 22
0
The 8 LSBs of the mantissa field are truncated.