The SNAP Project: Towards Sub-Nanosecond Arithmetic

  • Authors:
  • M. J. Flynn;K. Nowka;G. Bewick;E. Schwarz;N. Quach

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-

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

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Abstract

SNAP - the Stanford subnanosecond arithmetic processor - is an interdisciplinary effort to develop theory, tools, and technology for realizing an arithmetic processor with execution rates under 1 ns. Specific improvements in clocking methods, floating-point addition algorithms, floating-point multiplication algorithms, division and higher-level function algorithms, design tools, and packaging technology were studied. These improvements have been demonstrated in the implementation of several VLSI designs.