Readioing Comprehension - gate counts

[shaharhada]

CORDIC routines have been implemented in Intel x87 coprocessors (8087,[80287,80387) up to the 80486 microprocessor series, as well as in the Motorola 68881 and 68882 for some kinds of floating-point instructions, mainly as a way to reduce the gate counts (and complexity) of the FPU subsystem.
What is the meaning of reducing the gate counts?
source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating-point_unit

 

[kanewolf]

CORDIC routines have been implemented in Intel x87 coprocessors (8087,[80287,80387) up to the 80486 microprocessor series, as well as in the Motorola 68881 and 68882 for some kinds of floating-point instructions, mainly as a way to reduce the gate counts (and complexity) of the FPU subsystem.
What is the meaning of reducing the gate counts?
source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating-point_unit

Gates are the logical subcomponents required to implement a function -- https://www.electronics-tutorials.ws/logic/logic_1.html
In the context above, they are trying to reduce the total number of transistors required for the overall FPU function.

 

[shaharhada]

Thank you, Now I understand.