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Area-Efficient Arithmetic Expression Evaluation Using Deeply Pipelined Floating-Point Cores

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Area-Efficient Arithmetic Expression Evaluation Using Deeply Pipelined Floating-Point Cores
Recently, it has become possible to implement floating-point cores on field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) to provide acceleration for the myriad applications that require high-performance floating-point arithmetic. To achieve high clock rates, floating-point cores for FPGAs must be deeply pipelined. This deep pipelining makes it difficult to reuse the same floating-point core for a series of dependent computations. However, floating-point cores use a great deal of area, so it is important to use as few of them in an architecture as possible. In this paper, we describe area-efficient architectures and algorithms for arithmetic expression evaluation. Such expression evaluation is necessary in applications from a wide variety of fields, including scientific computing and cognition. The proposed designs effectively hide the pipeline latency of the floating-point cores and use at most two floating-point cores for each type of operator in the expression. While best-suited for particular c...
Ronald Scrofano, Ling Zhuo, Viktor K. Prasanna
Added 16 Dec 2010
Updated 16 Dec 2010
Type Journal
Year 2008
Where TVLSI
Authors Ronald Scrofano, Ling Zhuo, Viktor K. Prasanna
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