Very high radix square root with prescaling and rounding and a combined division/square root unit

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 827-841

  Lang, Tomás ^a,b   Montuschi, Paolo ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Division; Recurrence prescaling; Selection by rounding; Square root

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000015662     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/12.795124     Document Type: Article

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