Pipelined CORDICs for Reconfigurable Computing
[appeared at The Sixth FPGA/PLD Design Conference & Exhibit, 
Yokohama, Japan, June, 1998.]

by Oskar Mencer, Martin Morf, Michael J. Flynn

abstract.
Reconfigurable computing has shown impressive successes with data intensive 
and latency tolerant applications. Pipelined and parallel implementations 
of CORDICs can achieve very high throughput for rotation, and various other 
functions such as multiplication, division, square-root, as well as 
hyperbolic and other elementary functions.

Reconfiguration allows us to adapt the implementation of CORDICs and related 
architectures to the specific needs and properties of individual applications 
or specific sets of applications; hence creating application specific CORDIC 
implementations. 

Therefore it is becoming evident that CORDICs are very well suited for 
reconfigurable computing and custom computing machines.