Date of Award
5-1-2018
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy
Department
Electrical and Computer Engineering
First Advisor
Wang, Haibo
Abstract
As the amount of data generated increases, so does the amount of data processing. However for some applications, a decision can be made using partial results obtained mid-computation. This research presents three MSB-first computation circuits which allow for early computation termination: an accumulator, a comparator and an arithmetic processing element. The circuits are constructed based on a novel carry propagation shift-register design. Results for various size inputs show a decrease in the number of clock cycles necessary to make a decision compared to existing techniques. In addition, the number of bits used in the computation is reduced, thereby decreasing the number of bits fetched from memory.
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