Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!eos!jaw
From: jaw@eos.UUCP (James A. Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: The Bellcore divider
Message-ID: <475@eos.UUCP>
Date: 31 Mar 88 00:47:12 GMT
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, California
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Keywords: division, arithmetic

On July 16, 1986, Science magazine printed a teaser about
a new technique to speed integer division.  This was based on work
by Ernest Brickell and Charles Leiserson, motivated by the
need for fast division in RSA crypto work.

The blurb mentioned that a systolic array chip was being built
to make division fully speed-competitive with multiplication
(i.e. in realtime ala the iterative array multiplier).
Further details would be made coincident with journal publication
and patent application.

What happened -- is this something that has gone commercial?