| Publication Type |
technical report |
| School or College |
College of Engineering |
| Department |
Computing, School of |
| Creator |
Chandramouli, V. |
| Title |
Design of a Self-Timed, Pipelined, Floating Point Multiplier in Gallium Arsenide |
| Date |
1994-06 |
| Description |
This thesis presents the design of a self-timed, floating point multiplier in Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) technology. It implements the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) single precision standard. Self-timed design methodology offers some advantages over a synchronous approach, especially at higher clock frequencies, which are quite common in technologies like GaAs. This thesis looks at the various issues involved by undertaking the design of a system of reasonable complexity. It begins with a study of existing techniques for parallel binary multiplication. Based on this study, an architecture comparison is presented. Then a new architecture is obtained by modifying an existing architecture and compared against other competing approaches in terms of area and latency.; Also, as part of this thesis, a new family of precharged circuits has been developed that allows for a delay insensitive implementation in GaAs. Since delay insensitive systems tend to reflect the average case behavior rather than the worst case, this approach will improve performance in cases where applicable.; Finally, based on SPICE simulations, the proposed multiplier was sound to have a latency of 24ms and a peak throughput of 76 MFLOPS. It is also shown to have an area about one-third and consume about half the power of an existing GaAs floating point multiplier, described in the 1992 IEEE GaAs Symposium. |
| Type |
Text |
| Subject |
gallium arsenide; floating point multiplier; GaAs; GaAs technology |
| Language |
eng |
| Bibliographic Citation |
Chandramouli, V. (1994). Design of a self-timed, pipelined, floating point multiplier in gallium arsenide. |
| Series |
University of Utah Computer Science Technical Report |
| Relation is Part of |
ARPANET |
| Format Medium |
application/pdf |
| Format Extent |
74,241,242 bytes |
| File Name |
Chandramouli-Design_Of.pdf |
| Conversion Specifications |
Original scanned with Kirtas 2400 and saved as 400 ppi uncompressed TIFF. PDF generated by Adobe Acrobat Pro X for CONTENTdm display |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s60g5mcm |
| Setname |
ir_computersa |
| ID |
97163 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s60g5mcm |
