Nuvia: don’t hold your breath

[Yoused]

The fastest way for a person to divide is on a slide rule. Compared to using paper, it is instantaneous. There is probably an effective way to build an analog divider into a CPU core that could divide as fast as a multiplier (would most likely be set up to do both), in situations where it would be practical to trade some digital precision for speed. Perhaps an electronic slide rule analog unit could be set up to provide a result refined to meet the invoker's need within the range of the timeframe.

 

[mr_roboto]

Unfortunately, any potential advantages of an analog divider would get destroyed by the overheads (floorplan area, time, and power) of converting digital inputs to analog values, then converting the analog result back into digital. DACs and ADCs are large and slow.