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18th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'04) - Workshop 3
Pipelined Multipliers for Reconfigurable Hardware
Santa Fe, New Mexico
April 26-April 30
ISBN: 0-7695-2132-0
Mitchell J. Myjak, Washington State University
Jos? G. Delgado-Frias, Washington State University
Reconfigurable devices used in digital signal processing applications must handle large amounts of data in vector form. Most signal processing algorithms use multiplication extensively; thus, the hardware must support this operation to achieve high performance. However, mapping a multiplier on traditional fine-grain devices produces a complex structure whose performance is limited by the routing overhead. In this paper, we present a novel pipelined multiplier structure suitable for medium-grain and coarse-grain reconfigurable cell arrays. We first implement an unsigned n-bit multiplier using m-bit cells. Then, we show how the same structure can work with two?s-complement data with small changes to the configuration. The structure requires \left\lceil {n/m} \right\rceil ^2 cells, but can execute vector operations in a pipelined fashion. We also discuss the benefits of using a hierarchical design for large multipliers.
Citation:
Mitchell J. Myjak, Jos? G. Delgado-Frias, "Pipelined Multipliers for Reconfigurable Hardware," ipdps, vol. 4, pp.150b, 18th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'04) - Workshop 3, 2004
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