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Logic circuit design of a 41-bit residue arithmetic unit

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Title Logic circuit design of a 41-bit residue arithmetic unit
Names Routhieaux, Thomas Robert (creator)
Stone, Louis (advisor)
Date Issued 1965-08-06 (iso8601)
Note Graduation date: 1966
Abstract The application of residue notation is another
approach for solving the problem of carry propagation in
arithmetic units. Most other methods for solving this
problem are based on changes in adder design and the use
of improved components.
Residue arithmetic has the inherent property of
requiring no carries between moduli. This results in
residue arithmetic requiring only a fraction of the
carries necessary with conventional weighted arithmetic.
The basic operations of addition, subtraction,
multiplication, and division are incorporated in the
design of a 41-bit residue arithmetic unit. Using only
four moduli, addition and subtraction can be accomplished
four times faster than conventional addition and subtraction using synchronous accumulators without carry-look-ahead techniques. Multiplication can be accomplished approximately sixteen times faster. In some cases, division is accomplished faster than conventional
non-restoring division, On the average, however, residue
division takes longer to accomplish than non-restoring
conventional division.
Detection of overflow in addition, subtraction, and
multiplication is based on a slightly different approach
for representing signed numbers. Monitoring multiplicative overflow after every multiplication reduces the
speed of residue multiplication from sixteen to approximately twelve times faster than conventional multiplication.
Genre Thesis/Dissertation
Topic Electronic digital computers -- Circuits
Identifier http://hdl.handle.net/1957/47820

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