Simple radix-4 division with operands scaling

Abstract

A radix-4 division algorithm with operands scaling is proposed. The algorithm uses a recurrence with redundant addition (carry-save or signed-digit) and combines simple scaling with a quotient-selection function that depends only on the estimate of the partial remainder and is independent of the divisor. The scheme results in a significant speedup with respect to both the radix-2 and radix-4 without scaling.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">&gt;</ETX>