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Karatsuba with Rectangular Multipliers for FPGAs

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This work presents an extension of Karatsuba's method to efficiently use rectangular multipliers as a base for larger multipliers. The rectangular multipliers that motivate this work are the embedded 18×25-bit signed multipliers found in the DSP blocks of recent Xilinx FPGAs: The traditional Karatsuba approach must under-use them as square 18×18 ones. This work shows that rectangular multipliers can be efficiently exploited in a modified Karatsuba method if their input word sizes have a large greatest common divider. In the Xilinx FPGA case, this can be obtained by using the embedded multipliers as 16×24 unsigned and as 17×25 signed ones. The obtained architectures are implemented with due detail to architectural features such as the pre-adders and post-adders available in Xilinx DSP blocks. They are synthesized and compared with traditional Karatsuba, but also with (non-Karatsuba) state-of-the-art tiling techniques that make use of the full rectangular multipliers. The proposed technique improves resource consumption and performance for multipliers of numbers larger than 64 bits.
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hal-01773447 , version 1 (21-04-2018)

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Martin Kumm, Oscar Gustafsson, Florent de Dinechin, Johannes Kappauf, Peter Zipf. Karatsuba with Rectangular Multipliers for FPGAs. ARITH 2018 - 25th IEEE International Symposium on Computer Arithmetic, Jun 2018, Amherst, United States. pp.13-20, ⟨10.1109/ARITH.2018.8464809⟩. ⟨hal-01773447⟩
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