DocumentCode
1597239
Title
Proven-prompt vector normalizer
Author
Knittel, Guenter
Author_Institution
William-Schickard-Inst. Fuer Inf., Tuebingen Univ., Germany
fYear
1993
Firstpage
112
Lastpage
115
Abstract
The cosine of the angle between two vectors is a frequency needed quantity in computer graphics algorithms. Provided the vectors are normalized, it can easily be computed by evaluating their dot product. However, this requires the essential problem of rapidly normalizing a vector, which includes three divisions and one square root operation, to be solved. The authors describe a single-chip VLSI implementation of a pipelined vector normalizer and give design details of a fast and compact square root unit
Keywords
VLSI; data visualisation; digital signal processing chips; parallel algorithms; pipeline arithmetic; vector processor systems; compact square root unit; computer graphics algorithms; pipelined vector normalizer; proven-prompt vector normalizer; single-chip VLSI implementation; Clocks; Computer graphics; Concurrent computing; Light sources; Lighting; Optical reflection; Pipelines; Registers; Taylor series; Very large scale integration;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
ASIC Conference and Exhibit, 1993. Proceedings., Sixth Annual IEEE International
Conference_Location
Rochester, NY
Print_ISBN
0-7803-1375-5
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ASIC.1993.410821
Filename
410821
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