A fast Faddeev array

A systolic array for the fast computation of the Faddeev algorithm is presented. Inversion of an n×n matrix on a systolic array is known to tend to 5 n inner product steps under the assumption that no data are duplicated. The proposed Faddeev array achieves matrix inversion in just 4 n steps with O (n²) basic cells using careful duplications of some data. The array consists of two half-arrays which compute two separate but coupled triangularizations. The coupling is resolved by an on-the-fly decoupling process which duplicates pivot row data and passes them between the arrays using only nearest neighbor connections