An average computer user speeds up the applications by over twenty times and slashes the energy use to less than 5% if decimal hardware units are employed. Interest in decimal arithmetic increased considerably in recent years. This IP family presents new designs for decimal floating point (DFP) addition, multiplication, fused multiply-add, division, and square root. It stresses the importance of energy savings achieved by hardware implementations of the IEEE 754-2008 standard for decimal floating point.

SilMinds is the first company worldwide to discuss energy savings in DFP and the first to present a hardware implementation of a fused multiply-add. Our Newton-Raphson based divider is over three times faster than the similar design previously reported.