DESIGN OF ARITHMETIC PROCESSORS

We reserve the right to change the examination syllabus below until the latest time required by DTU rules and regulations.

This version was modified on 02 November 2022

From:
 Digital Arithmetic
 Milos D. Ercegovac, Tomás Lang
 Morgan Kaufmann, 2003

Topics and book's chapters:

• Basics
  Chapter 1: p. 3-40
• Addition
  Chapter 2: p. 51-63, p. 79-85, p. 91, p. 97-102, p. 112-115.
• Multioperand Addition
  Chapter 3: p. 137-158, p. 166.
• Multiplication
  Chapter 4: p. 181-207, p. 217-221, p. 223-227.
• Division
  Chapter 5: p. 247-309.
• Square Root
  Chapter 6: p. 331-347.
• Reciprocal and Division by Iterative Approximation
  Chapter 7: p. 367-387.
• Floating-Point Arithmetic
  Chapter 8: p. 397-466.
• Function Evaluation
  Chapter 10: p. 549-565.

Papers and Articles

Available from DTU Learn (Reading Material).

1. Floating-Point and TFP
   Lecture notes (AN), Sept. 2022.
2. A High-Performance Area-Efficient Multifunction Interpolator
   Stuart F. Oberman and Michael Y. Siu
   Proceedings of the 17th Symposium on Computer Arithmetic, June 2005.

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