JOURNAL ARTICLE

The MC68881 Floating-point Coprocessor

Clayton HuntsmanD. Cawthron

Year: 1983 Journal:   IEEE Micro Vol: 3 (6)Pages: 44-54   Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Abstract

This device, a hardware implementation of the proposed IEEE floating-point standard, can operate as a coprocessor on a 32-bit bus or as a peripheral on an 8- or 16-bit bus.

Keywords:
Coprocessor Computer science Parallel computing Point (geometry) Floating point Computer architecture Embedded system Operating system

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