Nee tips for ARM ALU designing

[aravind]

help: ARM ALU design

Hi friends
i m very new to ARM ALU design. anyone familiar with that . please tell some idea to design efficient and new ARM ALU .
if u have any document or link related to that also welcome
thanks

 

[moneychaser]

help: ARM ALU design

The trick to designing a good ARM ALU is to put the barrel-shifter for the second operand in a different pipeline stage to the adder.

 

[jackson_peng]

help: ARM ALU design

i didn't see any trick in ARM ALU,
one shifter and one adder.
totally they can be performed within 5ns under .18 technology

 

[nand_gates]

Re: help: ARM ALU design

See the book
ARM System-on-chip Architecture by Steve Furber
You can also refer to nnARM core rtl available somewhere on the net!

 

[incisive]

Re: help: ARM ALU design

ARM Speciality includes code density, Thumb code instruction and other which alu changes accordingly, Its mainly a Risc processor.