The Electrical Engineering Handbook

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Logarithmic and Residue Number Systems for VLSI Arithmetic

Thanos Stouraitis,     Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Patras, Greece

1.1. Introduction

1.2. LNS Basics

1.2.1. LNS and Linear Representations

1.2.2. LNS Operations

1.2.3. LNS and Power Dissipation

1.3. The Residue Number System

1.3.1. RNS Basics

1.3.2. RNS Architectures

1.3.3. Error Tolerance in RNS Systems

1.3.4. RNS and Power Dissipation

References

1.1 Introduction

Very large-scale integrated circuit (VLSI) arithmetic units are essential for the operations of the data paths and/or the addressing units of microprocessors, digital signal processors (DSPs), as well as data-processing application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) and ...