This work, which mainly developed by PhD student Yibo Liu and Shuyuan Yu, developed a new stochastic computing framework for performing hardware based division operation for fixed point numbers for the first time. They applied so-called counting-based stochastic computing technique to mitigate the existing issues of SC based divider such as coherent requirements of bit stream, low accuracy issue. The new counting based SC divider delivers the STOA results in the current SC division design.

Y. Liu, S. Yu and M. Tasnim and S. X.-D. Tan, “Fast and scaled counting-based stochastic computing divider design”, IEEE Transaction on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), 2024, DOI: 10.1109/TCAD.2024.3365426.