Circuit Design Techniques for a Floating-Point Processor

Timothy Hu

EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley

Technical Report No. UCB/CSD-87-372

, 1987

http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1987/CSD-87-372.pdf

This report presents some novel circuit design techniques used in the datapath of the SPUR floating-point unit. Three most interesting circuit blocks are discussed which include a fast adder, a leading one detector and a shifter. Mixed logic with static and dynamic circuits are used. The chip is implemented in a 1.6 micron, N-well, double-metal CMOS process (HP CMOS40). <p>The timing and area of the above three modules are as follows: <br />66 bit adder <br /> * Delay - Crystal 36 ns, SPICE 33 ns <br /> * Size - 4757 x 553 lambda, which is 3806 x 442 um. <br />67 bit Leading one detector <br /> * Delay - Crystal 20.5 ns, SPICE 18 ns <br /> * Size - 4901 x 463 lambda, which is 3920 x 320 um. <br />67 bit shifter with Sticky Logic <br /> * Delay - Shifting 15 ns, Sticky bit (latched into output latch) 25 ns <br /> * Size - The whole module with decoder is 5359 x 1414 lambda, which is 4287 x 1131 um.

BibTeX citation:

@techreport{Hu:CSD-87-372,
    Author= {Hu, Timothy},
    Title= {Circuit Design Techniques for a Floating-Point Processor},
    Year= {1987},
    Month= {Sep},
    Url= {http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1987/5810.html},
    Number= {UCB/CSD-87-372},
    Abstract= {This report presents some novel circuit design techniques used in the datapath of the SPUR floating-point unit. Three most interesting circuit blocks are discussed which include a fast adder, a leading one detector and a shifter. Mixed logic with static and dynamic circuits are used. The chip is implemented in a 1.6 micron, N-well, double-metal CMOS process (HP CMOS40).  <p>The timing and area of the above three modules are as follows:   <br />66 bit adder  <br /> * Delay - Crystal 36 ns, SPICE 33 ns  <br /> * Size - 4757 x 553 lambda, which is 3806 x 442 um.  <br />67 bit Leading one detector   <br /> * Delay - Crystal 20.5 ns, SPICE 18 ns   <br /> * Size - 4901 x 463 lambda, which is 3920 x 320 um.  <br />67 bit shifter with Sticky Logic   <br /> * Delay - Shifting 15 ns, Sticky bit (latched into output latch) 25 ns   <br /> * Size - The whole module with decoder is 5359 x 1414 lambda, which is 4287 x 1131 um.},
}

EndNote citation:

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%A Hu, Timothy 
%T Circuit Design Techniques for a Floating-Point Processor
%I EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley
%D 1987
%@ UCB/CSD-87-372
%U http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1987/5810.html
%F Hu:CSD-87-372