Sciweavers

11 search results - page 1 / 3
» Computation of Decimal Transcendental Functions Using the CO...
Sort
View
ARITH
2009
IEEE
14 years 10 days ago
Computation of Decimal Transcendental Functions Using the CORDIC Algorithm
In this work we propose new decimal floating-point CORDIC algorithms for transcendental function evaluation. We show how these algorithms are mapped to a state of the art Decimal...
Álvaro Vázquez, Julio Villalba, Elis...
ASAP
2010
IEEE
142views Hardware» more  ASAP 2010»
13 years 7 months ago
Implementing decimal floating-point arithmetic through binary: Some suggestions
We propose several algorithms and provide some related results that make it possible to implement decimal floating-point arithmetic on a processor that does not have decimal opera...
Nicolas Brisebarre, Nicolas Louvet, Érik Ma...
FPGA
2009
ACM
273views FPGA» more  FPGA 2009»
14 years 9 days ago
A parallel/vectorized double-precision exponential core to accelerate computational science applications
Many natural processes exhibit exponential decay and, consequently, computational scientists make extensive use of e−x in computer simulation experiments. While it is common to ...
Robin Pottathuparambil, Ron Sass
ARITH
1999
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
New Algorithms for Improved Transcendental Functions on IA-64
The IA-64 architecture provides new opportunities and challenges for implementing an improved set of transcendental functions. Using several novel polynomial-based table-driven te...
Shane Story, Ping Tak Peter Tang
ASAP
2005
IEEE
142views Hardware» more  ASAP 2005»
13 years 11 months ago
Decimal Floating-Point Square Root Using Newton-Raphson Iteration
With continued reductions in feature size, additional functionality may be added to future microprocessors to boost the performance of important application domains. Due to growth...
Liang-Kai Wang, Michael J. Schulte