VLSI architecture for low latency radix-4 CORDIC

  • Authors:
  • B. Lakshmi;A. S. Dhar

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Electronics and Electrical, Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, West Bengal - 721302, India;Department of Electronics and Electrical, Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, West Bengal - 721302, India

  • Venue:
  • Computers and Electrical Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

The CORDIC algorithm, originally proposed using nonredundant radix-2 arithmetic, has been refined in terms of throughput and latency with the introduction of redundant arithmetic and higher radix techniques. In this paper, we propose a pipelined architecture using signed digit arithmetic for the VLSI efficient implementation of rotational radix-4 CORDIC algorithm, eliminating z path completely. A detailed comparison of the proposed architecture with the available radix-2 architectures shows the latency and hardware improvement. The proposed architecture achieves latency improvement over the previously proposed radix-4 architecture with a relatively small hardware overhead. The proposed architecture for 16-bit precision was implemented using VHDL and extensive simulations have been performed to validate the results. The functionally simulated net list has been synthesized for 16-bit precision with 90nm CMOS technology library and the area-time measures are provided. This architecture was also implemented using Xilinx ISE9.1 software and a Virtex device.