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In this work we present a new 64-bit floating point Fused Multiply Add (FMA) unit that can perform both binary and decimal addition, multiplication, and fused-multiply-add operations. The presented FMA has 6 percent less delay than the fastest stand-alone decimal unit and 23 percent less area than both binary and decimal units together. These results were achieved by the use of: 1) column by column...