Hsiao et al. recently introduced, in the context of multipartite table methods, a lossless compression technique that replaces a table of numerical values with two smaller tables and one addition. The present work improves this technique and the resulting architecture by exposing a wider implementation space, and an exhaustive but fast algorithm exploring this space.It also shows that this technique has many more applications than originally published, and that in many of these applications the addition is for free in practice. These contributions are implemented in the open-source FloPoCo core generator and evaluated on FPGA and ASIC, reducing area up to a factor 2.
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