Parallel Compressors

  • Authors:
  • D. D. Gajski

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Computers
  • Year:
  • 1980

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Abstract

A subclass of generalized parallel counters, called parallel compressors, is introduced in this correspondence. Under present-day packaging technology, parallel compressors with their higher compression ratio and fewer input/output pins are more efficient in multiple operand addition and multiplication than parallel counters. Cost and time bounds are obtained for schemes using parallel compressors for reduction of N summands to m summands. Furthermore, a method for synthesizing large parallel counters using only one type of parallel compressor is given.