Function Evaluation by Table Look-up and Addition

  • Authors:
  • Hannes Hassler;Naofumi Takagi

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ARITH '95 Proceedings of the 12th Symposium on Computer Arithmetic
  • Year:
  • 1995

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Abstract

We describe a general approach decomposing a function into a sum of functions, each with a smaller input size than the original. Hence we can map such functions with essentially the same precision using small ROM tables and adders. We derive an easy method to compute the worst case error for many elementary functions and an error bound for the rest. Important applications are reciprocals, logarithms, exponentials and others.