All IEEE 754 exceptions are handled and a full complement of floating point instructions with appropriate addressing modes are included. So is it fast? Yes – a basic floating point add on two registers completes in just 3 clocks, or 30 ns at 100MHz. What does it mean for real-world applications? It opens up tremendous opportunity to do filtering, signal processing and other tasks that would have formerly required a low-end DSP. As a real-world example, an 8-tap FIR completes in under a microsecond.