Implementation of The Ieee Standard Binary Floating-Point Arithmetic Unit

A floating-point system can be used to represent, with a fixed number of digits, numbers of different orders of magnitude: e.g. the distance between galaxies can be expressed with the same unit of length. The result of this dynamic range is that the numbers that can be represented are not uniformly spaced; the difference between two consecutive representable numbers grows with the chosen scale. Over the years, a variety of floating-point representations have been used in computers. However, since the 1990s, the most commonly encountered representation is that defined by the IEEE 754 Standard. The speed of floating-point operations, commonly measured in terms of FLOPS, is an important characteristic of a computer system. Hence, in this work the IEEE standard binary floating-point arithmetic is implemented.