Efficient division algorithm?

<MikeShepherd564@btinternet.com> wrote in message news:ke4rr3dvhavb3jhsaquskh3a8ceedsgtok@4ax.com...
> >The NiosII blurb says that it can implement a single instruction
>>32 bit multiply or divide.
>>I wonder what sort of architecture they're using?
> What's unusual about a single instruction multiply or divide?  Surely
> it's just a question of writing the microcode to do it.
> Mike


Ah ha, that was me with my hardware head on (I don't have another one)
reading single instruction as single clock!

:-(


Nial