Techniques for the design and use of a digital signal processor, including processing transmissions in a communications (e.g., CDMA) system. A modified Booth multiplication system and process determine a multiplicand, A, and a multiplier, B. Radix-m, (e.g., radix-4) Booth recoding on B generates “n” multiplication factors, where “n,” an integer, is approximating one half of the number of the multiplier bits. “n” partial products are generated using the “n” multiplication factors as multipliers of A. Then, a multiplication tree is formed using radix-m Booth encoding. The multiplication tree includes multiplier bits associated to generate a multiplication factors. In the event of a negative multiplication factor, a two's complement of A is formed by inverting the bits of A and associating a sticky “1” to complete the two's complementation. Furthermore, multiplication factors are reduced in multiple stages to a form sum and carry components of a pre-determined length. The additive inverse of A×B is formed by using novel techniques to calculate the product of A and −B.