An efficient implementation of the Chinese Remainder Theorem in minimally redundant Residue Number System

Abstract

The Chinese Remainder Theorem (CRT) widely used in many modern computer applications. This paper presents an efficient approach to the calculation of the rank of a number, a principal positional characteristic used in the Residue Number System (RNS). The proposed method does not use large modulo addition operations compared to a straightforward implementation of the CRT algorithm. The rank of a number is equal to a sum of an inexact rank and a two-valued correction factor that only takes on the values 0 or 1. We propose a minimally redundant RNS, which provides low computational complexity of the rank calculation. The effectiveness of the novel method is analyzed concerning conventional non-redundant RNS. Owing to the extension of the residue code, by adding the extra residue modulo 2, the complexity of rank calculation goes down from \(O(k^2)\) to \(O(k)\), where \(k\) equals the number of residues in non-redundant RNS.