Novel cell architecture for high performance digit-serial computation

Abstract

A new cell architecture for high performance digit-serial computation is presented. The design of this cell is based on the feedforward of the carry digit, which allows a high level of pipelining to increase the throughput rate. This will give designers greater flexibility in finding the best tradeoff between hardware cost and throughput rate. The effect of the number of pipelining levels on the throughput rate and hardware cost are presented.