Floating point numbers are used in various applications such as medical imaging, radar, telecommunications Etc. This paper deals with the comparison of various arithmetic modules and the implementation of optimized floating point ALU. Here pipelined architecture is used in order to increase the performance and the design is achieved to increase the operating frequency by 1.62 times. The logic is designed using Verilog HDL. Synthesis is done on Encounter by Cadence after timing and logic simulation. ©2013 IEEE.