Digital Arithmetic
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Author(s): M. Ercegovac and T. Lang
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
ISBN: 1558607986
Format: hardback
709pp
Price: £51.95
Review Date: 01 October 2003
Review: This book provides a unified treatment of digital arithmetic, linking the underlying theory and design practice in a technologically independent manner. The authors begin by reviewing the basic material in terms of representations and algorithms for the basic operations. The next six chapters give a comprehensive discussion on alternative algorithms and implementation for addition/subtraction (of two or more than two operands), multiplication, division and square roots. Floating-point representation and their corresponding algorithms and implementations are discussed as well as serial arithmetic. The last two chapters discuss methods for function generation: approximations based on multiplications, additions and table lookup and recurrences with linear convergence.