A digit serial algorithm for the integer power operation

  • Authors:
  • Lun Li;Mitch Thornton;David W. Matula

  • Affiliations:
  • Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX;Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX;Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX

  • Venue:
  • GLSVLSI '06 Proceedings of the 16th ACM Great Lakes symposium on VLSI
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We introduce a right-to-left digit serial algorithm for the integer power operation xy where x and y are positive integers. For n-bit words the algorithm utilizes o(n) additions and does not require use of a multiplier. We describe a hardware implementation and evaluate the effectiveness employing a Synopsys tool set with a standard cell implementation. Out digit serial algorithm compares favorably with a popular iterative square and multiply algorithm implemented with the same tool set.