Architecture and implementation of a vector MAC unit for complex number

Signal processing requires high performance digital signal processors(DSP) and hardware accelerators. Real and complex multiply-accumulate(MAC) units are the most critical computation units in the DSPs and accelerators, which greatly impact the performance, power and chip area of the signal processing system. A fixed-point Single-Instruction-Multiple-Data(SIMD)/vector MAC architecture is presented in this paper. It supports 8-bit/16-bit/32-bit...