fmadd

Floating-Point Fused Multiply-Add (Scalar)

FMADD <Hd|Sd|Dd>, <Hn|Sn|Dn>, <Hm|Sm|Dm>, <Ha|Sa|Da>

Calculates (Vn * Vm) + Va without intermediate rounding.

Details

Computes a fused multiply-add operation: (Rn × Rm) + Ra, with a single rounding step applied to the final result. This guarantees higher precision than separate multiply and add instructions. Floating-point exception conditions (invalid, overflow, underflow, inexact) may be generated. The instruction operates on Half-precision (16-bit), Single-precision (32-bit), or Double-precision (64-bit) formats, determined by the type field. This is an AArch64-only instruction.

Pseudocode Operation

Rd ← FP_FusedMultiplyAdd(Rn, Rm, Ra)
if (type == 00) then operands are H-registers (16-bit)
else if (type == 01) then operands are S-registers (32-bit)
else if (type == 10) then operands are D-registers (64-bit)

Example

FMADD Dd, Dn, Dm, Da

Encoding

Binary Layout
0
0
0
11111
00
0
Rm
0
Ra
Rn
Rd
 
Format FP Data Processing
Opcode 0x1F000000
Extension Floating Point

Operands

  • Vd
    Destination SIMD/FP vector register
  • Vn
    First source SIMD/FP vector register
  • Vm
    Second source SIMD/FP vector register
  • Va
    Addend

Reference (Arm A64 ISA)

Instruction Forms

Encoding Instruction ISA Bit pattern
0x1FC00000 FMADD <Hd>, <Hn>, <Hm>, <Ha> A64 0 | 0 | 0 | 11111 | 11 | 0 | Rm | 0 | Ra | Rn | Rd
0x1F000000 FMADD <Sd>, <Sn>, <Sm>, <Sa> A64 0 | 0 | 0 | 11111 | 00 | 0 | Rm | 0 | Ra | Rn | Rd
0x1F400000 FMADD <Dd>, <Dn>, <Dm>, <Da> A64 0 | 0 | 0 | 11111 | 01 | 0 | Rm | 0 | Ra | Rn | Rd

Description

Floating-point fused Multiply-Add (scalar). This instruction multiplies the values of the first two SIMD&FP source registers, adds the product to the value of the third SIMD&FP source register, and writes the result to the SIMD&FP destination register. A floating-point exception can be generated by this instruction. Depending on the settings in FPCR, the exception results in either a flag being set in FPSR, or a synchronous exception being generated. For more information, see Floating-point exception traps. Depending on the settings in the CPACR_EL1, CPTR_EL2, and CPTR_EL3 registers, and the current Security state and Exception level, an attempt to execute the instruction might be trapped.

Operation

CheckFPEnabled64();

bits(esize) operanda = V[a, esize];
bits(esize) operand1 = V[n, esize];
bits(esize) operand2 = V[m, esize];

boolean merge = IsMerging(FPCR);
bits(128) result = if merge then V[a, 128] else Zeros(128);

Elem[result, 0, esize] = FPMulAdd(operanda, operand1, operand2, FPCR);

V[d, 128] = result;