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Multiply Two 64 bit Numbers Using 32 Bit Words

Asked by: Canoba

I am trying to multiply two 64 bit unsigned numbers using only 32 bit words. I understand how to multiply two 32 bit unsigned numbers but I cant figure out how to get the 64 bit number into two 32 bit words. Can someone give me an idea. Here is my 32 bit multiplication program. Any help would greatly be appreciated as I am new to the spim assembly language.

## $t1 ­ mask
## $t2 ­ multiplier (and right_hand_sum).
## $t3 ­ left_hand_sum.
## $t4 ­ multiplicand.
## $t5 - clear.
## $t6 - rightmost bit of left_hand_sum.
## $t7 - rightmost bit of right_hand_sum.
## $t8 - counter

## $v0 ­ syscall parameter / return values.
## $a0 ­ syscall parameters.
## $a1 ­ syscall parameters.

.text
.globl __start
__start:

## read the two integers
      li $v0, 5             # load multiplicand.
      syscall
      move $t4, $v0

      li $v0, 5             # load multiplier.
      syscall
      move $t2, $v0

      lw $t1, mask
      lw $t5, clear      
      
      li $t8, 32
continue:      
      
      beqz $t8, end


      and $t7, $t1, $t2
      beqz $t7, shift
      add $t3, $t3, $t4

shift:      and $t6, $t3, $t1      # store rightmost bit og l_sum in $t6
      and $t2, $t2, $t5      # clear rightmost bit of r_sum
      or $t2, $t2, $t6      # move stored right bit of l_sum to rightmost position of r_sum
      ror $t2, $t2, 1            # rotate r_sum
      srl $t3, $t3, 1            # shift l_sum right
                        # Use sra for twos complement numbers
      addiu $t8, $t8, -1
      b continue

      
end:      sw $t2, r_sum
      sw $t3, l_sum

      li $v0, 10
      syscall
.data
      r_sum: .word 0
      l_sum: .word 0

      mask:  .word 0x00000001
      clear: .word 0xFFFFFFFE

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2003-10-16 at 13:21:16ID20769336
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by: mtmikePosted on 2003-10-16 at 15:28:37ID: 9566002


You probably mean mips assembly using the spim simulator. Since this looks like homework, I won't give you any code, just some hints.

Mips has the mul instruction to multiply two 32-bit registers, no need to write your own.

There's the widening multiply instruction multu that multiplies two unsigned 32 bit registers into a 64-bit result. The two special hi and lo registers are used to store this result.

A 64-bit multiply can be performed using one such widening multiply, two normal 32-bit multiplies and two 32-bit adds.

 

by: grg99Posted on 2003-10-16 at 19:03:43ID: 9566960

Pretend you're multiplying two 2-digit numbers by hand.

You can multiply two 2-register-wide numbers in Exactly the same way.

 

by: dimitryPosted on 2003-10-16 at 21:58:31ID: 9567527

Let's assume that you have two 64-bit numbers: Z1 and Z2. Their multiplication with give you 128-bit result.
You can multiply 32-bit on 32-bit.
So declare Z1 = Y1 0 + X1 (where X1 is lower 32-bit and Y1 is higher 32-bit)
Z2 = Y2 0 + X2
Then Z1 * Z2 = (Y1 0 + X1 ) * (Y2 0 + X2)
And you need to find only 32-bit multiplications BUT for example Y1 0 * Y2 0 = Y1*Y2 0 0 (where Y1 * Y2 is upper 64-bit value of 128-bit result).

Hope it will help you...

 

by: y2kswPosted on 2003-11-28 at 17:16:38ID: 9840731

x86, very fast and efficient, any number size (>= 64 bits):

BNMul      proc      lpBNResult:DWORD, lpBN1:DWORD, lpBN2:DWORD
;--T:BOOL
;--G:Multiplies two Big Numbers and stores the result to lpBNResult. Returns -1 on overflow.
;--H:
      local      lpBNLocal:DWORD
      local      lpBNRes:DWORD
      local      dwValue:DWORD
      
      mov            eax,0
      
      pushad

      PUSH_STACK_BN      lpBNLocal
      PUSH_STACK_BN      lpBNRes
      
      ;clears lpBNResult
      mov            eax,0

      mov            ecx,dwArraySize

      ;unrolled BNSet0 >>>>>
      mov            edi,lpBNResult
      push      ecx
      rep            stosd
      pop            ecx
      ;<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
      
      ;tests if lpBN1 or lpBN2 are 0, if so, exit
      ;unrolled BNIs0 >
      mov            edi,lpBN1
      push      ecx
      repz      scasd
      pop            ecx
      .if ZERO?
            jmp            @F
      .endif
      ;<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

      ;unrolled BNIs0 >
      mov            edi,lpBN2
      push      ecx
      repz      scasd
      pop            ecx
      .if ZERO?
            jmp            @F
      .endif
      ;<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
      
      ;copies lpBN1 to lpBNLocal, which is then shifted to the left
      ;unrolled BNCopy >>>>
      mov            esi,lpBN1
      mov            edi,lpBNLocal
      push      ecx
      rep            movsd
      pop            ebx                                          ;holds the iteration count
      ;<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
      
      ;computes the number of bits of the multiplier, which are the
      ;iterations - 1
      dec            ebx
      mov            ecx,lpBN2                              ;holds the DWORD offset
      
      .repeat
            ;tests if the DWORD is set
            .if dword ptr [ecx]
                  ;if it is, multiply lpBNLocal by dword ptr [ecx] and
                  ;add lpBNRes to lpBNResult
                  mov            eax,[ecx]
                  mov            dwValue,eax
                  ;unrolled BNMulByDWORD >>
                  pushad
                  mov            ebx,0                                    ;Carry
                  mov            ecx,dwArraySize
                  mov            edi,lpBNRes
                  ;unrolled BNCopy
                  mov            esi,lpBNLocal
                  push      ecx
                  push      edi
                  rep            movsd
                  pop            edi
                  pop            ecx
                  ;<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
                  dec            ecx
                  .repeat
                        mov            eax,[edi]
                        mul            dwValue
                        add            eax,ebx
                        mov            ebx,0
                        mov            [edi],eax
                        lea            edi,[edi+4]
                        adc            ebx,edx
                        dec            ecx
                  .until SIGN?
                  ;check for overflow
;                  .if dword ptr [edi-4] & 80000000h
;                        retv      -1
;                  .endif
                  .if ebx
                        retv      -1
                  .endif
                  popad
                  ;<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
                  ;unrolled BNAddEx >>>>>
                  pushad
                  mov            ecx,dwArraySize
                  mov            esi,lpBNRes
                  mov            edi,lpBNResult
                  sub            ecx,1                        ;dec ecx|and eax,eax
                  .repeat
                        mov            eax,[esi]
                        lea            esi,[esi+4]
                        adc            [edi],eax
                        lea            edi,[edi+4]
                        dec            ecx
                  .until SIGN?
                  popad
                  ;<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
                  .if CARRY?
                        retv      -1
                  .endif
            .endif
            ;shift lpBNLocal (ex lpBN1) 32 bits to the left, ignore CARRY
            ;unrolled BNShl32Ex >>>>>
            push      ecx
            push      esi
            push      edi
            mov            ecx,dwArraySize
            mov            esi,lpBNLocal
            dec            ecx
            lea            edi,[esi+ecx*4]
            lea            esi,[esi+ecx*4-4]
            std
            rep            movsd
            cld
            mov            dword ptr [edi],0
            pop            edi
            pop            esi
            pop            ecx
            ;<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
            lea            ecx,[ecx+4]                        ;DWORD offset
            dec            ebx                                    ;iterations
      .until SIGN?
      
@@:
      POP_STACK_BN
      POP_STACK_BN
      popad
      
      ret
BNMul      endp

 

by: Computer101Posted on 2004-02-16 at 17:26:40ID: 10377953

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