Emulating a hardware signed multiplier

[Torbjorn Granlund]

Børge Strand-Bergesen <borge.strand at gmail.com> writes:

  I'm using GMP to write a C program that emulates a signed multiplier
  that I have implement in an FPGA. The hardware multiplier uses various
  hardware optimization, so I need to be confident in it before I put it
  to its actual use. (MAC for digital cross-over filter.)  I intend to
  have GMP generate random input, send it on a UART to the hardware
  multiplier, receive its result and compare that to the one GMP
  calculated. If no flaws are found during a couple nights of this, the
  hardware multiplier is quite likely holding up. My setup is Cygwin on
  XP with GCC 3.4.4 and GMP 4.2.4-1 from a very recent Cygwin
  repository.
  
Since you have GCC, I'd use its builtin "signed long long" type,
which works exactly like your hardware.

GMP internally uses sign-magnitude, which might make things more
complicated.

You might want to generate random numbers with GMP, though, since its
random number generators, such as mpz_rrandomb, is quote good for test
vector generations.

There is no direct way of assigning a signed long long type from a GMP
mpz_t variable.  You might use two calls to mpz_get_ui with some
shifting.

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Torbjörn