Abstract: This paper introduces four techniques for performing fast decimal addition on multiple binary coded decimal (BCD) operands. Three of the techniques speculate BCD correction values and use ...

applications. Furthermore, hardware support for decimal arithmetic has gained momentum with IEEE 754- 2008, which standardized decimal floating-point. This paper presents a new architecture for two ...

Abstract: Decimal multiplication is important in many commercial applications including financial analysis, banking, tax calculation, currency conversion, insurance, and accounting. This paper ...