A design of transcendental function accelerator

Abstract

The calculation of transcendental functions is a common step in industrial control algorithms. Taking up a large number of CPU cycles, the transcendental function calculation by software compresses the computing resources of real-time control algorithms. As the complexity of industrial control system increases, hardware accelerators have become one of the strategies to solve this contradiction. In this paper, we designed a multi-thread, high-performance, configurable hardware accelerator for transcendental functions, which is based on the iterative calculation. It supports the calculations of sine cosine, arc-tangent, modulus, exponent and logarithm. The accelerator uses the standard cell library of SMIC 40nm Eflash platform for synthesis, achieving a frequency of 200MHz and a synthesis area of 176,840um2.