Signal Processing Applications Of 70 Mhz Bit-Serial Hardware
Richard Linderman · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 1986
This paper examines signal processing applications of high speed bit-serial arithmetic and control circuitry which has been designed and tested for performance in the 50 MHz to 100 MHz range. A dense layout technique allows as many as 70 28-bit serial multipliers to be placed on a single 1.25 micron CMOS chip. At 70 MHz, this provides a throughput of 144 million multiplications per second. Applications to Fourier transform processors, digital filters, and matrix multi-plication are presented as examples. The bit-serial hardware is shown to have several advantages over bit-parallel alternatives.