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From: lindsay@MATHOM.GANDALF.CS.CMU.EDU (Donald Lindsay)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Floating Point Multipliers
Keywords: BIT
Message-ID: <8274@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 4 Mar 90 19:28:56 GMT
References: <3880@uceng.UC.EDU>
Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI
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In article <3880@uceng.UC.EDU> ranga@uceng.UC.EDU (Dr. Ranga R. Vemuri) writes
>Does any one have pointers to info. on floating point arithmetic units
>(multipliers and dividers in particular) ...

If your library has a year's worth of "EDN" and "Electronic Design"
(etc), then you should be able to get all the phone numbers with a
few minutes work.

The hottest vaporware I know of is the new "130" series from BIT.
Soon, you can get a sample with a 100 MHz double precision pipeline.
They're also claiming that flowthrough only has one stage of latency:
wow. Of course, the package is 5 square inches ...  $1400 ... and
thirty watts. Hot, indeed.
-- 
Don		D.C.Lindsay 	Carnegie Mellon Computer Science