• DocumentCode
    1081491
  • Title

    A CMOS floating-point vector-arithmetic unit

  • Author

    Timmermann, D. ; Rix, B. ; Hahn, H. ; Hosticka, B.J.

  • Author_Institution
    Fraunhofer Inst. of Microelectron. Circuits and Syst., Duisburg, Germany
  • Volume
    29
  • Issue
    5
  • fYear
    1994
  • fDate
    5/1/1994 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    634
  • Lastpage
    639
  • Abstract
    This work describes a floating-point arithmetic unit based on the CORDIC algorithm. The unit computes a full set of high level arithmetic and elementary functions: multiplication, division, (co)sine, hyperbolic (co)sine, square root, natural logarithm, inverse (hyperbolic) tangent, vector norm, and phase. The chip has been integrated in 1.6 μm double-metal n-well CMOS technology and achieves a normalized peak performance of 220 MFLOPS
  • Keywords
    CMOS integrated circuits; digital arithmetic; integrated logic circuits; parallel architectures; pipeline processing; vector processor systems; 1.6 micron; 220 MFLOPS; CORDIC algorithm; cosine; division; double-metal n-well CMOS technology; floating-point vector-arithmetic unit; hyperbolic sine; inverse tangent; multiplication; natural logarithm; phase; sine; square root; vector norm; CMOS technology; Circuits and systems; Convergence; Floating-point arithmetic; Iterative algorithms; Microelectronics; Microprogramming; Pipelines; Throughput; Zinc;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9200
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/4.284719
  • Filename
    284719