rod@venera.isi.edu (Rodney Doyle Van Meter III) (09/28/89)
Has anybody looked at Hwang's book, _Computer Arithmetic_, 1979? Is it any good? I'm thinking about doing the design for a simple FPU for a term project, and would like a little more detail than his book _Computer Architecture and Parallel Processing_ provides. I suppose it would really be better to ask the question generally: has anybody seen a good book on computer arithmetic, particularly one that has relevance to high-speed floating point chips that have hit the market in the last few years? --Rod
aglew@urbana.mcd.mot.com (Andy-Krazy-Glew) (09/29/89)
Hwang's book on Computer Arithmetic is pretty good, although a little dated.
Waser and Flynn are a bit more recent.
Be sure to read Gosling's paper "Tricks of the (Floating Point) Trade",
in one of the Computer Arithmetic Conferences.
Sorry that these references are vague. I am doing a survey of computer
arithmetic - I'd post my bibliography, except (silly me) I hand wrote it.
As always, I invite correspondence on computer arithmetic topics.
(BTW - folks who responded to my last query on Computer Arithmetic -
any objections if I post a summary? I'll avoid names and details
unless you specifically give permission)
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