Consideration on Tradeoff for Performance/Area of Exponential Function Circuits
Hidenori Hatae, Hidenori Hatae, 浩二 橋本, Koji Hashimoto, 和彰 村上, Kazuaki J. Murakami · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 2002
Ever increasing density of transistors on LSI’s allows us to implement large and complex arithmetic cir- cuits on board, and therefore some complex functions, such as exponential functions, which have been implemented by software are now potentially possible to be implemented by hardware. The paper surveys some existing hardware algorithm to implement exponential function, and then proposes a new hardware algorithm. The paper also tries to evaluate the tradeoff between performance and area of the algorithm.