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ARITH
2009
IEEE
14 years 1 months 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 1 months 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 10 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 12 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