EDN

Binary Coded Decimal (BCD) 101 – Part 1

Editor's Note: This is the first article in a two-part series on decimal representations and decimal arithmetic in general, and on Binary Coded Decimal (BCD) in particular. In this first installment, ...
IEEE

Reversible Implementation of Densely-Packed-Decimal Converter to and from Binary-Coded-Decimal Format Using in IEEE-754R

Abstract: The binary coded decimal (BCD) encoding has always dominated the decimal arithmetic algorithms and their hardware implementation. Due to importance of decimal arithmetic, the decimal format ...
IEEE

Novel High-Speed Architecture for 32-Bit Binary Coded Decimal (BCD) Multiplier

Abstract: With the increasing prominence of commercial, financial and Internet-based applications that process data in decimal format, there is a renewed interest in providing hardware support to ...
Electronic Design

Easily Convert Decimal Numbers To Their Binary And BCD Formats: Backstory

HERE’S A C/C++ PROGRAM that converts decimal numbers ranging from 0 to 99,999 to binary and binary coded decimal (BCD) formats. Using a simple algorithm in conjunction with pointer arithmetic and ...