Computer Engineering and Applications ›› 2007, Vol. 43 ›› Issue (20): 104-106.

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Design and implementation of high performance subword parallel multiplier

HUANG Li-bo,YUE Hong,LU Hong-yi,DAI Kui   

  1. School of Computer,National University of Defense Technology,Changsha 410073,China
  • Received:1900-01-01 Revised:1900-01-01 Online:2007-07-11 Published:2007-07-11
  • Contact: HUANG Li-bo

一种高性能子字并行乘法器的设计与实现

黄立波,岳 虹,陆洪毅,戴 葵   

  1. 国防科学技术大学 计算机学院,长沙 410073
  • 通讯作者: 黄立波

Abstract: This paper proposes a multiplier architecture capable of supporting subword parallelism,and has completed its VLSI design and implementation using 0.18 μm standard cell process.Based on the 16 bit array sub-word parallel architecture,this multiplier extends signed and unsigned hybrid operations,and uses multi-cycle combination technique to realize 32 bit sub-word parallel operations.In addition,it also supports sub-word multiply accumulate operations.With pipelined operation style,it can perform one 32×16,two 16×16,and four 8×8 bit signed/unsigned multiplications in single cycle respectively.The implementation results show that the proposed sub-word parallel multiplier can reduce the area and improve the frequency,which is a good compromise of hardware consumption and performance.It is well suitable for multimedia microprocessor design.

Key words: subword parallelism, multiplier, multimedia

摘要: 提出了一种支持子字并行的乘法器体系结构,并完成了其VLSI设计与实现。该乘法器在16 bit阵列子字并行结构的基础上,扩展了有符号与无符号之间的混合操作,采用多周期合并技术,实现了32 bit宽度的子字并行,并支持子字模式的乘累加,同时采用流水线设计技术,能够在单周期内完成4个8×8、2个16×16或1个32×16的有符号/无符号乘法操作。0.18 μm的标准单元库的实现表明该乘法器既能减小面积又能提高主频,是硬件消耗和运算性能的较好折衷,非常适用于多媒体微处理器的设计。

关键词: 子字并行, 乘法器, 多媒体