On the binary quadratic residue system with noncoprime moduli

Abstract

The residue number system (RNS) appropriate for implementing fast digital signal processors since it can support parallel, carry-free, high-speed arithmetic. A development in residue arithmetic is the quadratic residue number system (QRNS), which can perform complex multiplications with only two integer multiplications instead of four. An RNS/QRNS is defined by a set of relatively prime integers, called the moduli set, where the choice of this set is one of the most important design considerations for RNS/QRNS systems. In order to maintain simple QRNS arithmetic, moduli sets with numbers of forms 2/sup n/+1 (n is even) have been considered. An efficient such set is the three-moduli set (2/sup 2k-2/+1.2/sup 2k/+1.2/sup 2k+2/+1) for odd k. However, if large dynamic ranges are desirable, QRNS systems with more than three relatively prime moduli must be considered. It is shown that if a QRNS set consists of more than four relatively prime moduli of forms 2/sup n/+1, the moduli selection process becomes inflexible and the arithmetic gets very unbalanced. The above problem can be solved if nonrelatively prime moduli are used. New multimoduli QRNS systems are presented that are based on nonrelatively prime moduli of forms 2/sup n/+1 (n even). The new systems allow flexible moduli selection process, very balanced arithmetic, and are appropriate for large dynamic ranges. For a given dynamic range, these new systems exhibit better speed performance than that of the three-moduli QRNS system.