The POWER8™ processor is the latest RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer)
microprocessor from IBM. It is fabricated using the company's 22-nm Silicon on Insulator …

This paper describes the implementation of the IBM POWER6™ microprocessor, a two-way
simultaneous multithreaded (SMT) dual-core chip whose key features include binary …

The IBM POWER® processor is the dominant reduced instruction set computing
microprocessor in the world today, with a rich history of implementation and innovation over …

The new generation of high-performance decimal floating-point units (DFUs) is demanding
efficient implementations of parallel decimal multipliers. In this paper, we describe the …

The latest IBM zSeries® processor, the IBM System z10™ processor, provides hardware
support for the decimal floating-point (DFP) facility that was introduced on the IBM System …

The IBM system z10 includes four microprocessor cores-each with a private 3-Mbyte cache-
and integrated accelerators for decimal floating-point computation, cryptography, and data …

Among the emerging technologies recently proposed as alternatives to the classic CMOS,
quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) is one of the most promising solutions to design …

The decimal multiplication is one of the most important decimal arithmetic operations which
have a growing demand in the area of commercial, financial, and scientific computing. In this …

Decimal floating-point Arithmetic is widely used in commercial computing applications, such
as financial transactions, where rounding errors prevent the use of binary floating-point …

Decimal hardware arithmetic units have recently regained popularity, as there is now a high
demand for high performance decimal arithmetic. We propose a novel method for carry-free …