EDN

Targeting Floating-Point Algorithms for FPGA or ASIC Deployment

Native Floating-Point HDL code generation allows you to generate VHDL or Verilog for floating-point implementation in hardware without the effort of fixed-point conversion. Native Floating-Point HDL ...
EDN

Floating point coprocessor interfaces to virtually any microcontroller

Micromega Corporation releases the uM-FPU V3 Floating Point Coprocessor chip. The uM-FPU V3 chip interfaces to virtually any microcontroller using a SPI interface or I2C interface, making it ideal for ...
Hackaday

Making Floating Point Calculations Less Cursed When Accuracy Matters

An unfortunate reality of trying to represent continuous real numbers in a fixed space (e.g. with a limited number of bits) is that this comes with an inevitable loss of both precision and accuracy.
Electronic Design

Interview: Markus Levy Highlights The EEMBC Floating Point Benchmark

Wong: EEMBC has been around for more than 16 years, why the recent need for floating-point benchmarks? Levy: While floating-point units in processors have been in use for decades, in recent times ...
insideHPC

Has the Decades-Old Floating Point Error Problem been Solved?

Today a company called Bounded Floating Point announced a “breakthrough patent in processor design, which allows representation of real numbers accurate to the last digit for the first time in ...