The Pentium FDIV bug is a hardware bug affecting the floating-point unit (FPU) of the early Intel Pentium processors. Because of the bug, the processor...
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The Pentium F00F bug is a design flaw in the majority of Intel Pentium, Pentium MMX, and Pentium OverDrive processors (all in the P5 microarchitecture)...
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customers. The Pentium FDIV bug is a hardware bug affecting the floating-point unit (FPU) of the early Intel Pentium processors. Because of the bug, the processor...
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Nicely at Lynchburg College, Virginia, became widely known as the Pentium FDIV bug and caused embarrassment for Intel, which created an exchange program...
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Intel Pentium processors Intel Inside Pentium FDIV bug, a well-publicized flaw in the original processor Performance Rating, informally termed Pentium Rating...
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debugging under its design for testing (DFT) initiative. Following the Pentium FDIV bug, the patchable microcode function took on a wider purpose to allow...
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processors do not have FDIV bug) Based on P5 microarchitecture Steppings: B1, B3, B5, C2, E0 (Note: D1 stepping processors do not have FDIV bug) Based on P5 microarchitecture...
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vulnerability. The Intel Pentium series of CPUs had two well-known bugs discovered after it was brought to market, the FDIV bug affecting floating point...
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discovered to have a major security vulnerability in 2017 Pentium F00F bug Pentium FDIV bug Row hammer – an unintended side effect in dynamic random-access...
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"FDIV" erratum in early Pentium processors, known as the Pentium FDIV bug. This gave incorrect answers to a floating-point division instruction (FDIV)...
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non-BCD data is undefined. On early Intel Pentium processors, floating-point divide was subject to the Pentium FDIV bug. This also affected instructions that...
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concentrated in integrated circuit design and verification. Since the Pentium FDIV bug, the complicated floating point units of modern microprocessors have...
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for example, the Pentium FDIV bug became an expensive fiasco for Intel as it required a product recall because the original Pentium processor's defective...
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tiny error here can make the whole chip useless, or worse. The famous Pentium FDIV bug caused the results of a division to be wrong by at most 61 parts per...
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of compilers were developed that could avoid the failing cases. See Pentium FDIV bug. But an attempted computation of cos(π) yields −1 exactly. Since the...
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5%. By calculating the twin primes up to 1014 (and discovering the Pentium FDIV bug along the way), Nicely heuristically estimated Brun's constant to be...
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division operations of the AMD K5 microprocessor in the wake of the Pentium FDIV bug. For his contributions to automated deduction, Moore received the 1999...
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Thomas Ray Nicely [de] (1943—2019), US mathematician, discoverer of the Pentium FDIV bug This page lists people with the surname Nicely. If an internal link...
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design Finite-state machine (FSM) Firmware Floating-point unit (FPU) Pentium FDIV bug Instruction pipeline Microsequencer MikroSim Millicode Superscalar...
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arithmetic are employed. Galley division Multiplication algorithm Pentium FDIV bug Despite how "little" problem the optimization causes, this reciprocal...
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computations related to the distribution of prime numbers and discovered the Pentium FDIV bug. Nicely left Lynchburg College in 2000. In July 2018, the university...
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division operation of the AMD K5 microprocessor in the wake of the Pentium FDIV bug. Industrial users of ACL2 include AMD, Arm, Centaur Technology, IBM...
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was credited in a 1995 Byte magazine article for proposing that the Pentium FDIV bug might have worse consequences than either Intel or IBM was predicting...
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90 years in prison. Worldwide: Intel recalled the original Pentium processors due to the Pentium FDIV bug. USA: October: Over 500,000 Santa Barney Pom-Pom plush...
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present in the high-level code already, such as for the Pentium FDIV floating-point unit bug, or it can be inserted all the way down to physical synthesis...
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