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A multi-functional floating point multiplier

  • De Liu*
  • , Mingjiang Wang
  • , Yiwen Wang
  • , Hang Su
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen

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Abstract

This paper presents a multi-functional double precision floating-point multiplier design. The proposed design can perform one double precision multiplication or one vector multiplication of two 2D vectors which is consist of single precision floating-point numbers. The proposed design is modeled in Verilog-HDL and verified through extensive functional simulation. The presented multi-functional double-precision multiplier is compared with conventional single and double precision multipliers by ASIC synthesis. The functionality of supporting single precision multiplication is at the cost of 8% more area and 9% more delay, compared to a conventional double precision multiplier. Compared to the combination of one double and four single precision multipliers, the proposed design saves 47% area.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of 2015 IEEE 9th International Conference on Anti-Counterfeiting, Security and Identification, ASID 2015
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages56-60
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781467371391
DOIs
StatePublished - 11 Feb 2016
Externally publishedYes
Event9th IEEE International Conference on Anti-Counterfeiting, Security and Identification, ASID 2015 - Xiamen, China
Duration: 25 Sep 201527 Sep 2015

Publication series

NameProceedings of the International Conference on Anti-Counterfeiting, Security and Identification, ASID
Volume2016-February
ISSN (Print)2163-5048
ISSN (Electronic)2163-5056

Conference

Conference9th IEEE International Conference on Anti-Counterfeiting, Security and Identification, ASID 2015
Country/TerritoryChina
CityXiamen
Period25/09/1527/09/15

Keywords

  • floating point arithmetic
  • multi-functional multiplier

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