Survey of arithmetic integrated circuits

Author

Waser, Shlomo

Author_Institution

Monolithic Memories, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, USA

fYear

1978

fDate

25-27 Oct. 1978

Firstpage

257

Lastpage

266

Abstract

The purpose of this report is to provide the state-of-the-art of high performance arithmetic integrated circuits (ICs). The survey concentrates on arithmetic ICs that are designed to improve execution speed over software techniques, therefore, no calculator chips are surveyed. In order to understand the difficulties encountered in fabricating high speed arithmetic ICs, we start the article with a discussion on semiconductor technology. Next, we survey the various arithmetic elements that are available in monolithic form: ALUs, Data Slices, Multipliers, Floating Point Processors, and ROMs. Finally, we conclude with a comment on digital signal processing and a discussion of the future trends in arithmetic ICs.

Keywords

digital integrated circuits; floating point arithmetic; high-speed integrated circuits; read-only storage; ALU; ROM; arithmetic elements; arithmetic integrated circuits; data slices; digital signal processing; execution speed; floating point processors; high-performance arithmetic IC; monolithic form; multipliers; semiconductor technology; software techniques; Adders; Architecture; Computer architecture; Delay; Logic gates; Power dissipation; Registers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Arithmetic (ARITH), 1978 IEEE 4th Symposium on

Conference_Location

Santa Monica, CA

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ARITH.1978.6155760

Filename

6155760