ARM Cortex-R4 - Modes of Operation

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11.4 Modes of operation
The FPU provides three modes of operation to accommodate a variety of applications:
• Full-compliance mode
• Flush-to-zero mode
• Default NaN mode.
11.4.1 Full-compliance mode
In full-compliance mode, the FPU processes all operations according to the IEEE 754 standard
in hardware.
11.4.2 Flush-to-zero mode
Setting the FZ bit, FPSCR[24], enables flush-to-zero mode. In this mode, the FPU treats all
subnormal input operands of arithmetic
CDP operations as zeros in the operation. Exceptions that
result from a zero operand are signaled appropriately.
VABS , VNEG , and VMOV are not considered
arithmetic
CDP operations and are not affected by flush-to-zero mode. A result that is tiny, as
described in the IEEE 754 standard, for the destination precision is smaller in magnitude than
the minimum normal value before rounding and is replaced with a zero. The IDC flag,
FPSCR[7], indicates when an input flush occurs. The UFC flag, FPSCR[3], indicates when a
result flush occurs.
11.4.3 Default NaN mode
Setting the DN bit, FPSCR[25], enables default NaN mode. In this mode, the result of any
operation that involves an input NaN, or that generated a NaN result, returns the default NaN.
Propagation of the fraction bits is maintained only by
VABS , VNEG , and VMOV operations. All other
CDP operations ignore any information in the fraction bits of an input NaN.