Vector Functionally-Oriented Processors with Vertical Parallelism for Operations on Quaternions

Abstract

The paper deals with approaches for creation and algorithmically-structural features of the hardware for direct hardware implementation of operations on hypercomplex numbers (for example, quaternions). There are described basic list of operations on quaternions and features of hardware implementation of these operations by processing elements that belong to the class of functionally-oriented processors.

Keywords

• hypercomplex numbers
• quaternions multiplication
• functionally-oriented processors
• SIMD architecture
• application of quaternions