Title
A floating-point divider using redundant binary circuits and an asynchronous clock scheme
Abstract
SUMMARY This paper describes a new floating-point divider (FDIV), in which the key features of redundant binary circuits and an asynchronous clock scheme reduce the delay time and area penalty. The redundant binary representation of +1 = (1, 0), 0 = (0, 0), -1 = (0,1) is applied to the all mantissa division circuits. The simple and unified representation reduces circuit delay for the quotient determination. Additionally, the local clock generator circuit for the asynchronous clock scheme eliminates clock margin overhead. The generator circuit guar- antees the worst delay-time operation by the feedback loop of the rep- lica delay paths via a C-element. The internal iterative operation by the asynchronous scheme and the modified redundant-binary addition/sub- traction circuit keep the area small. The architecture design avoids ex- tra calculation time for the post processes, whose main role is to pro- duce the floating-point status flags. The FDIV core using proposed technologies operates at 42.1 ns with 0.35 µm CMOS technology and triple metal interconnections. The small core of 13.5 k transistors is laid-out in a 730 µm × 910 µm area.
Year
DOI
Venue
1997
10.1109/ICCD.1997.628939
Austin, TX
Keywords
Field
DocType
CMOS integrated circuits,dividing circuits,floating point arithmetic,redundant number systems,CMOS technology,all mantissa division circuits,asynchronous clock,asynchronous clock scheme,circuit delay,floating-point divider,internal iterative operation,redundant binary circuits,redundant binary representation,triple metal interconnections
Asynchronous communication,Floating point,Computer science,Clock domain crossing,Application-specific integrated circuit,Real-time computing,CMOS,Significand,Binary number,Redundant binary representation
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
E82C
1
1063-6404
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-8186-8206-X
0
0.34
References 
Authors
3
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hiroaki Suzuki1294.12
hiroaki makino200.34
K. Mashiko3499.50
hisanori hamano400.34