With continued reductions in feature size, additional functionality may be added to future microprocessors to boost the performance of important application domains. Due to growth...
This paper describes a study of a class of algorithms for the floating-point divide and square root operations, based on the Newton-Raphson iterative method. The two main goals we...
Marius A. Cornea-Hasegan, Roger A. Golliver, Peter...
Decreasing feature sizes allow additional functionality to be added to future microprocessors to improve the performance of important application domains. As a result of rapid gro...
Interest in decimal arithmetic increased considerably in recent years. This paper presents new designs for decimal floating point (DFP) addition, multiplication, fused multiplyad...
Hossam A. H. Fahmy, Ramy Raafat, Amira M. Abdel-Ma...
Inverse square roots are used in several digital signal processing, multimedia, and scientific computing applications. This paper presents a high-speed method for computing invers...