EDN

How to achieve 1 trillion floating-point operations-per-second in an FPGA

Based on recent technological developments, high-performance floating-point signal processing can, for the very first time, be easily achieved using FPGAs. To date, virtually all FPGA-based signal ...
EDN

Tutorial: Floating-point arithmetic on FPGAs

[Editor's note: For an intro to fixed-point math, see Fixed-Point DSP and Algorithm Implementation. For a comparison of fixed- and floating-point hardware, see Fixed vs. floating point: a surprisingly ...
Electronic Design

Dealing with the Absence of an FPU Using Fixed Point in Ada

Many numerical applications typically use floating-point types to compute values. However, in some platforms, a floating-point unit may not be available. Other platforms may have a floating-point unit ...
Design-Reuse

Hardware-based floating-point design flow

Floating-point processing is widely used in computing for many different applications. In most software languages, floating-point variables are denoted as “float†or double.†Integer variables are ...
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 ...