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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 09, 1988
Filed:
Feb. 14, 1985
Suren Irukulla, Holliston, MA (US);
Bimal V Patel, Framingham, MA (US);
Prime Computer, Inc., Natick, MA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for radix-.beta. non-restoring division. The division process occurs in four phases. In a first phase, the input operands are transformed to produce a divisor lying in a designated numerical range. Next, a transitional phase involves generating an initial radix-.beta. quotient digit from the transformed numerator. An iterative phase of the process generates successive partial remainders according to a recursive method. From the sign and a single radix-.beta. digit of each of these partial remainders, the process generates a radix-.beta. quotient digit. Further, a fourth phase, which may run concurrently with the transitional and iterative phases, involves accumulating successively generated quotient digits to produce a final quotient value.