A FAST MULTIPLIER HARDWARE DESIGN FOR INTERVAL ARITHMETIC

Year 2006, Volume: 6 Issue: 2, 169 - 174, 02.01.2012

Ahmet Sertbaş Hani El-abdallah Fethullah Karabıber

Abstract

A FAST MULTIPLIER HARDWARE DESIGN FOR INTERVAL ARITHMETIC

Keywords

Interval arithmetic, multipliers, VHDL synthesis, performance analysis

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