• 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