On Wed, August 15, 2007 5:20 pm, Timothy Normand Miller said:
> I had an IM chat with André Pouliot about the multiplication in the 
> nanocontroller.  Here are some of the highlights:
> 
> I'm still looking for someone to come up with an early-SPARC-like set of
> multiplier stepping instructions.  Basically, we can add a little to the
> ALU so that a 32x32->32 takes roughly 32 cycles, encoded as instructions.
> But there are other ideas.
> 

How about a radix-4 version? That should cut the number of cycles by roughly 
half, and doesn't require much more hardware i believe.

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