A systolic integrated circuit integer divider

Abstract

The TMC3211 CMOS-integrated circuit integer divider, which offers a low-power, high-speed, cost-effective solution to the division problem, is presented. Operating on 32-bit dividends and 16-bit divisors and returning 32-bit quotients at 25 million operations per second, the TMC3211 is implemented as a one-dimensional systolic array of 16 identical two-block arithmetic cells, each of which accepts the next two bits of the dividend and generates the next two bits of the quotient, while passing its remainder and the original divisor to the next cell in the series.<>