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http://dx.doi.org/10.6109/jkiice.2007.11.3.563

Design of a Truncated Floating-Point Multiplier for Graphic Accelerator of Mobile Devices  

Cho, Young-Sung (엠텍비젼)
Lee, Yong-Hwan (금오공과대학교 전자공학부)
Abstract
As the mobile communication and the semiconductor technology is improved continuously, mobile contents such as the multimedia service and the 2D/3D graphics which require high level graphics are serviced recently. Mobile chips should consume small die area and low power. In this paper, we design a truncated floating-point multiplier that is useful for the 2D/3D vector graphics in mobile devices. The truncated multiplier is based on the radix-4 Booth's encoding algorithm and a truncation algorithm is used to achieve small area and low power. The average percent error of the multiplier is as small as 0.00003% and neglectable for mobile applications. The synthesis result using 0.35um CMOS cell library shows that the number of gates for the truncated multiplier is only 33.8 percent of the conventional radix-4 Booth's multiplier.
Keywords
Floating-point; Multiplier; 2D/3D Graphics;
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