Open AccessTruncated ternary multipliers
Author(s) -
Parhami Behrooz
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
iet computers and digital techniques
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.219
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1751-861X
pISSN - 1751-8601
DOI - 10.1049/iet-cdt.2013.0133
Subject(s) - ternary operation , parallel computing , computer science , process engineering , chemistry , engineering , programming language
Balanced ternary number representation and arithmetic, based on the symmetric radix‐3 digit set {−1, 0, +1}, has been studied at various times in the history of computing. Among established advantages of balanced ternary arithmetic are representational symmetry, favourable error characteristics and rounding by truncation. In this study, we show an additional advantage: that of lower‐error truncated multiplication with the same relative cost reduction as in truncated binary multipliers.