JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science 4(2): 99-109, doi: 10.3217/jucs-004-02-0099
The SNAP Project: Building Validated Floating Point Units
expand article infoHesham A. Al-Twaijry‡, Stuart F. Oberman‡, Steve T. Fu‡, Michael J. Flynn‡
‡ Computer Systems Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford

Corresponding author: Hesham Al-Twaijry ( hesham@umunhum.stanford.edu )

© Hesham Al-Twaijry, Stuart Oberman, Steve Fu, Michael Flynn.
This article is freely available under the J.UCS Open Content License.
Citation: Al-Twaijry HA, Oberman SF, Fu ST, Flynn MJ (1998) The SNAP Project: Building Validated Floating Point Units. JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science 4(2): 99-109. https://doi.org/10.3217/jucs-004-02-0099
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Abstract
SNAP - The Stanford Sub-nanosecond arithmetic processor is an interdisciplinary effort to develop validated theory, and tools for realizing an arithmeti c processor with execution rates under 1ns. The project has targeted the full spectrum of tradeoffs from algorithms, circuit optimizations, system issues, and development of metrics to characterize processors.
Keywords
Computer arithmetic, Validated Designs, Addition, Multiplication, Division