A Novel Method for Solution of the Division Operation on ARM7 Microcontroller

Abstract:

Before architecture V7, the hardware of ARM microcontroller family does not support division operation. Although it is easy to program on ARM processors with C language which can implement division operation with library functions, the procedure has much trouble and the efficiency is lower when the function code written in C language is called in assembly program. This paper introduces an algorithm for the division operation on ARM7 processor and also gives corresponding subroutines which can be used directly in assembly program design. The algorithm is similar to the operation theory of the digital circuit which uses subtraction circuit to do division operation. The given subroutines can deal with the division operation between two 32-bit unsigned integers and the division between a 64-bit unsigned integer and a 32-bit unsigned integer.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 718-720)
• Pages: 2418-2421
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.718-720.2418
• Online since: July 2013
• Authors: Guang Wen Wu, Xiang Sheng Huang, Wen Long Hu
• Keywords: Architecture V7, ARM Microcontrollers, Assembly Division

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