13th IEEE International Conference on Application-Specific Systems, Architectures and Processors (ASAP'02)
A Combined Interval and Floating-Point Comparator/Selector
San Jose, California
July 17-July 19
ISBN: 0-7695-1712-9
Interval arithmetic provides a robust method for automatically monitoring numerical errors and can be used to solve problems that cannot be efficiently solved with floating-point arithmetic. This paper presents the design and implementation of a combined interval and floating-point comparator/selector, which performs interval intersection, hull, mignitude, magnitude, minimum, maximum, and comparisons, as well as floating-point minimum, maximum and comparisons. Area and delay estimates indicate that the combined interval and floating-point comparator/selector has 98% more area and a worst case delay that is 42% greater than a conventional floating point comparator/selector. The combined interval and floating-point comparator/selector greatly improves the performance of interval selection operations.
Index Terms:
Interval arithmetic, floating-point arithmetic, comparator, selector, VLSI design, specialized hardware.
Citation:
Ahmet Akkaş, "A Combined Interval and Floating-Point Comparator/Selector," asap, pp.208, 13th IEEE International Conference on Application-Specific Systems, Architectures and Processors (ASAP'02), 2002