IEEE 32-bit Floating Point Register Information
January 09 UDA2182 Communications User Guide 15
Reserved Operands
Per the Standard certain exceptional forms of floating point operands are excluded from the numbering
system. These are as follows:
EXCEPTION EXPONENT MANTISSA
+/- Infinity All 1’s All 0’s
Not-a-Number (NAN) All 1’s Other than 0’s
Denormalized Number All 0’s Other than 0’s
Zero All 0’s All 0’s