Design alternatives for barrel shifters

Matthew R. Pillmeier; Michael J. Schulte; Eugene George Walters III

doi:10.1117/12.452034

6 December 2002 Design alternatives for barrel shifters

Matthew R. Pillmeier, Michael J. Schulte, Eugene George Walters III

Proceedings Volume 4791, Advanced Signal Processing Algorithms, Architectures, and Implementations XII; (2002) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.452034
Event: International Symposium on Optical Science and Technology, 2002, Seattle, WA, United States

Abstract

Barrel shifters are often utilized by embedded digital signal processors and general-purpose processors to manipulate data. This paper examines design alternatives for barrel shifters that perform the following functions: shift right logical, shift right arithmetic, rotate right, shift left logical, shift left arithmetic, and rotate left. Four different barrel shifter designs are presented and compared in terms of area and delay for a variety of operand sizes. This paper also examines techniques for detecting results that overflow and results of zero in parallel with the shift or rotate operation. Several Java programs are developed to generate structural VHDL models for each of the barrel shifters. Synthesis results show that data-reversal barrel shifters have less area and mask-based data-reversal barrel shifters have less delay than other designs. Mask-based data-reversal barrel shifters are especially attractive when overflow and zero detection is also required, since the detection is performed in parallel with the shift or rotate operation.

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Matthew R. Pillmeier, Michael J. Schulte, and Eugene George Walters III "Design alternatives for barrel shifters", Proc. SPIE 4791, Advanced Signal Processing Algorithms, Architectures, and Implementations XII, (6 December 2002); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.452034

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