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. _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
