Modern Computer Architecture and Organization

Modern Computer Architecture and Organization, by Jim Ledin. Published by Packt Publishing.


Chapter 9, Exercise 6

Do the i.MX RT1060 processors support floating-point operations in hardware? Explain your answer.

Answer

Section 1.3, Features, in the reference manual lists the following capability: Single-precision and double-precision FPU (Floating Point Unit).

The ARM Cortex-M7 Processor Technical Reference Manual, available at http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.ddi0489b/DDI0489B_cortex_m7_trm.pdf states the FPU provides floating-point computation functionality that is compliant with the ANSI/IEEE Std 754-2008, IEEE Standard for Binary Floating-Point Arithmetic, referred to as the IEEE 754 standard.

The i.MX RT1060 processors support floating-point operations in hardware.