Patent Document ID: 20180246700
Application ID: 15442144
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A system comprising: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory; wherein the processor is configured to: detect a request to perform a division operation with a dividend and a divisor; responsive to detecting the request: generate an initial approximation of a reciprocal of the divisor in a N-bit floating point representation, wherein N is a positive integer; convert the initial approximation of the reciprocal of the divisor from the N-bit floating point representation to a fractional fixed point representation, wherein the fractional fixed point representation is a 1·(N−1)-bit fractional fixed point representation, wherein one bit is above a radix point and N−1 bits are below the radix point in the 1·(N−1)-bit representation; perform one or more iterations on the initial approximation of the reciprocal as converted to the fractional fixed point representation to generate a final version of the reciprocal; and perform a multiply operation of a final version of the reciprocal by the dividend to obtain a quotient as a result of the division operation.