Design of High-Speed Digital Divider Units

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn C-30, Issue 9, 1981, Pages 691-699

  Zurawski, J H P ^a   Gosling, J B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Borrow save subtraction; carry save addition; digital arithmetic; digital division; group subtractor; iterative division; uncommitted logic arrays (gate arrays)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERS;

EID: 0019611949     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TC.1981.1675869     Document Type: Article

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