Electronic Design

64-bit Floating Point Coprocessor Supports IEEE 754 Calculations

The uM-FPU64 floating point coprocessor chip provides support for IEEE 754-compatible, 64-bit floating point and integer calculations, expanded digital I/O, and analog input capabilities as well as ...
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Floating Point Numbers

The term floating point is derived from the fact that there is no fixed number of digits before and after the decimal point; namely, the decimal point can float. There are also representations in ...
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Single- and double-precision IEEE-754 floating-point unit

The GRFPU is an IEEE-754 compliant floating-point unit, supporting both single and double precision operands. The pipelined design combines high throu ...
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New Approach Could Sink Floating Point Computation

In 1985, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) established IEEE 754, a standard for floating point formats and arithmetic that would become the model for practically all FP ...
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Tachyum Successfully Runs LINPACK on FPGA With IEEE 754-2019 Compliant FPU

LAS VEGAS, November 29, 2022 – Tachyum™ continues to advance towards production-ready status of its universal processor after reaching its latest milestone of running LINPACK benchmarks using ...
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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 ...