13th IEEE Symposium on Computer Arithmetic (ARITH-13 '97)
SRT Division Architectures and Implementations
Asilomar, CA
March 06-March 09
ISBN: 0-8186-7846-1
SRT dividers are common in modern floating point units. Higher division performance is achieved by retiring more quotient bits in each cycle. Previous research has shown that realistic stages are limited to radix-2 and radix-4. Higher radix dividers are therefore formed by a combination of low-radix stages. In this paper, we present an analysis of the effects of radix-2 and radix-4 SRT divider architectures and circuit families on divider area and performance. We show the performance and area results for a wide variety of divider architectures and implementations. We conclude that divider performance is only weakly sensitive to reasonable choices of architecture but significantly improved by aggressive circuit techniques.
Index Terms:
Computer arithmetic, domino circuits, SRT division, skew-tolerant, floating point units
Citation:
David L. Harris, Stuart F. Oberman, Mark A. Horowitz, "SRT Division Architectures and Implementations," arith, pp.18, 13th IEEE Symposium on Computer Arithmetic (ARITH-13 '97), 1997