The present invention discloses a transcendental function evaluation. In described examples, an apparatus 500 is arranged to generate a
linear term, a quadratic term, and a constant term of a transcendental function with, respectively, a first circuit 530, a second circuit 550, and a third circuit 580 in response to least significant bits of an input
operand 510 and in response to, respectively, afirst, a second, and a third table value 520 that is retrieved in response to, respectively, a first, a second, and a third index generated in response to most significant bits of the input
operand.The third circuit 580 is further arranged to generate a mantissa of an output
operand in response to a sum of the
linear term, the quadratic term, and the constant term.