PWL-Based Architecture for the Logarithmic Computation of Floating-Point Numbers

Lyu, F; Mao, ZL; Zhang, J; Wang, Y; Luo, YY

Lyu, F (corresponding author), Jinling Inst Technol, Sch Elect & Informat Engn, Nanjing, Peoples R China.; Wang, Y (corresponding author), Nanjing Xiaozhuang Univ, Sch Elect Engn, Nanjing 211171, Peoples R China.

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VERY LARGE SCALE INTEGRATION (VLSI) SYSTEMS, 2021; 29 (7): 1470

Abstract

In this brief, we propose a logarithmic converter for floating-point numbers based on the piecewise linear (PWL) approximation method. The proposed me......

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