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1 December 1991 Arithmetic processor design for the T9000 transputer
Simon C. Knowles
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Abstract
This paper describes aspects of the arithmetic algorithms, architecture, and VLSI engineering of the 64-bit floating-point unit of the T9000 Transputer. The unit is fully conformant to the IEEE-754 floating-point arithmetic standard, and has been implemented in a 1 micrometers , triple- metal CMOS technology. The 160,000 transistor design performs addition in 40 ns, double precision multiplication in 60 ns, and double-precision division or square root in 300 ns. It will sustain 17 MFlops on the Linpac benchmark, yet occupies less than 15 mm2 of silicon--about 8.5% of the die area of T9000.
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Simon C. Knowles "Arithmetic processor design for the T9000 transputer", Proc. SPIE 1566, Advanced Signal Processing Algorithms, Architectures, and Implementations II, (1 December 1991); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.49824
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KEYWORDS
Signal processing

Computer aided design

Binary data

Logic

Silicon

Transistors

Metals

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