A Compact Hardware Realization for Approximate Division.

Abstract

The design and implementation of hardware for approximate digital division is described. Using standard, commercially-available T2L components, a compact divider has been developed which is well-suited for use within 5 MHz systems having three-state busses. After forming double-length denominator reciprocals by table look-up to high accuracies, single and extended-precision quotients are made available by consecutive numerator multiplications using a single-chip array multiplier. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 09, 1979
Accession Number
ADA079370

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  • Albert H. Huntoon

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  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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