Computer arithmetic project

Goal: To determine the processing efficiency (in number of bits per cycle) of

the “non-restoring” division technique with shift-over-0/1.

1. Write a program to simulate the process of an unsigned divider – a 2n-bit numerator

(N) and an n-bit divisor (D) leading to an (n + 1)-bit quotient (Q) and n-bit

remainder (R) using the non-restoring technique with simple shift-over 0’s and 1’s

using {−1/2, 1/2} as comparators, {−D, D} as subtractors.

2. Results required include:

• program listing,

• a plot showing the average number of bits “processed” per addition/subtractioncycle

(or the average number of quotient bits obtained per addition/subtraction

process as defined in the class) from 10,000 simulation runs, for n = 16, 18, · · · , 32,

and

• using your program to provide a demonstration of step-by-step (per subtractioncycle)

intermediate results for a 16-bit division with

N = 00001001101000001010101010101010 and D = 0111101100101010,

and clearly indicate what exactly transpires in each cycle.

Note: In order to avoid overflow, you should always fix the first 2 bits of D (divisor)

to 01 to start with, i.e. by assuming D is normalized already

Programación en C

Nº del proyecto: #7491331

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