A new area-efficient BCD-digit multiplier

In the Internet of Things era, with millions of devices performing financial and commercial operations, decimal arithmetic has become very popular in the computation of many business and commercial applications, in order to maintain decimal rounding and precision. This paper proposes the design and implementation of a new algorithm for decimal multiplication oriented to area reduction. This algorithm is especially suitable for field programmable gate arrays (FPGA) and has thus been implemented on this kind of devices. Results show that the proposed BCD multiplication leads to a significant area reduction without decreasing system performance.