On Sunday 26 December 2004 10:23 pm, Russell McMahon wrote:
> Can anyone suggest practical means to use a hardware division function for
> greater precision division? eg 8/8 divide extended to 16/16 etc.
> (A friend says it can't readily be done.)

Your friend is sort of correct.
It can't easily be done.
You wouldn't want to bother with an 8/8 hardware division since the function 
complexity doesn't justify the gain, but you can certainly get some speed 
gain out of a 16/16 or 32/32 assuming you're dealing with large values.

Cheers!
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