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Implementation of various CORDIC Architectures

As intended by Jack E. Volder, the CORDIC algorithm only performs shift and add operations and is therefore easy to implement and resource-friendly. However, when implementing the CORDIC algorithm one can choose between various design methodologies and must balance circuit complexity with respect to performance. The most obvious methods of implementing a CORDIC, bit-serial, bit-parallel, unrolled and iterative, are described and compared in the following sections.


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