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Perform addition and subtraction operation on the following two floating point operands. ...

Perform addition and subtraction operation on the following two floating point operands.

A = 0 10001 011011
B = 1 01111 101010
A and B are represented in a 12-bit format. The scale factor has an implied base of 2 and a 5-bit excess-15 exponent. The 6-bit mantissa is normalized as in the IEEE format, with an implied 1 to the left of the binary point.

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KELVIN
Initially 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0
1 1

Shift 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 --
Subtract + 1 1 1 0 1
1 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 0

Shift 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 --
Add + 0 0 0 1 1
0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1

Shift 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 --
Subtract + 1 1 1 0 1
1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0

Shift 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 --
Add + 0 0 0 1 1
1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0

Restore + 1 1 1 1 1
0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0
0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0
kalvinspartan answered the question on July 7, 2018 at 08:16

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