This paper presents a method for evaluating functions in hardware based on polynomial approximation with non-uniform segments. The novel use of nonuniform segments enables us to ap...
Dong-U Lee, Wayne Luk, John D. Villasenor, Peter Y...
Volume rendering is a flexible technique for visualizing dense 3D volumetric datasets. A central element of volume rendering is the conversion between data values and observable q...
Aaron E. Lefohn, Charles D. Hansen, Emil Praun, Jo...
In this paper, we provide a methodology to perform both bus partitioning and bus frequency assignment to each of the bus segment simultaneously while optimizing both power consump...
Suresh Srinivasan, Lin Li, Narayanan Vijaykrishnan
This paper proposes optimizations of the methods and parameters used in both mathematical approximation and hardware design for logarithmic number system (LNS) arithmetic. First, ...
— This paper presents ALA (Adaptable Logarithm Approximation), a novel hardware architecture for the approximation of the base-2 logarithm of integers at an arbitrary accuracy, s...
Dimitris G. Bariamis, Dimitris Maroulis, Dimitrios...