Floating point arithmetic is widely used in many areas, especially scientific computation and signal processing. For many signal processing, and graphics applications, it is acceptable to trade off some accuracy (in the least significant bit positions) for faster and better implementations. However, most of these modern applications need higher frequency or low latency of operations with minimal area occupancy. In this paper we describe an implementation of high speed IEEE 754 double precision floating point multiplier using tiling technique and targeted for Xilinx Virtex-6 Field Programmable Gate Array. Verilog is used to implement the design. The design achieved 436.815 MFlops with latency of seven clock cycles which is 97% fast compared to Xilinx floating point multiplier core. It handles the overflow, underflow cases and truncation rounding mode.
With the scaling of technology and the need for high performance and more functionality, power dissipation becomes a major bottleneck for microprocessor systems design. Also clock power can be significant in high performance systems. In this paper, a low power ALU for efficient datapath is proposed. In ALU, based on the observation, that while one functional unit is working other functional units remain idle, but they are connected to clock and all units dissipating significant amount of power. By using clock gating technique, a significant amount of power saving can be achieved at high frequency operations. Functionality of proposed ALU implemented on FPGA is tested using Xilinx tool. Power analysis is carried out using Xilinx's Xpower analysis tool. It is found that designed ALU is dissipating a power of 24mw when it is operated at a clock frequency of 15MHz and supply voltage of 2.4V under load current of 4.8mA
General TermsArchitecture, Low power.
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