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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!decwrl!csus.edu!netcom.com!netcom!mjohnson
  2. From: mjohnson@netcom.Netcom.COM (Mark Johnson)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.arch
  4. Subject: Re: Adder Designs in Modern Microprocessors
  5. Message-ID: <MJOHNSON.92Sep10165944@netcom.Netcom.COM>
  6. Date: 11 Sep 92 00:59:44 GMT
  7. References: <1992Sep10.150553.141904@ua1ix.ua.edu>
  8. Organization: Netcom Online Communications Service
  9. Lines: 6
  10. In-Reply-To: jjackson@carlrs6000.carl.ua.edu's message of Thu, 10 Sep 1992 15:05:53 GMT
  11.  
  12. Appendix A of Hennessy and Patterson gives loads of
  13. detail about implementing arithmetic functions on
  14. IC's.  It also has three relatively thorough
  15. examples of 1987-vintage chips and their hardware,
  16. algorithms, tradeoffs, and performance on
  17. arithmetic functions.
  18.