The properties of negation and zero in ringoids as defined by Kulisch

In [1,2] Kulisch defines (ordered) ringoids and vectoids to provide a theoretical basis for computer arithmetic and interval arithmetic. One interesting aspect of his treatment is the search for necessary and sufficient conditions for a meaningful notion of negation and zero. In this paper we consider this both from the point of view of...

Hardware Algorithms For Tile-Based Real-Time Rendering

In this dissertation, we present the GRAphics AcceLerator (GRAAL) framework for developing embedded tile-based rasterization hardware for mobile devices, meant to accelerate real-time 3-D graphics (OpenGL compliant) applications. The goal of the framework is a low-cost, low-power, high-performance design that delivers good image quality. We...

Arithmetic soft-core accelerators

In this dissertation, we address the design of multi-functional arithmetic units working with the most common fixed-point number representations, namely: unsigned, sign-magnitude, fractional, ten's and two's complement notations. The main design goal is to collapse multiple complex arithmetic operations into a single, universal arithmetic unit,...

The Delft-Java Engine

In this dissertation, we describe the DELFT-JAVA engine - a 32-bit RISC-based architecture that provides high performance JAVA program execution. More specifically we describe a microarchitecture that accelerates JAVA execution and provide details of the DELFT-JAVA architecture for executing JAVA Virtual Machine bytecode. The basic architecture...

Multimedia Hardware Accelerators

CORDIC for High Performance Numerical Computation

Addition related arithmetic operations with threshold logic