EDN

…and adds floating point unit to TriCore processor

Munich, Germany — Infineon Technologies AG has added a floating-point maths unit (FPU) to its library of system design blocks supporting the TriCore processor core. The addition of an FPU will improve ...
EDN

ARM adds floating-point unit to processor cores

SAN JOSE, Calif. — ARM Holdings plc will describe the addition of floating-point math capabilities to its ARM9 and ARM10 RISC processor cores at this week's Embedded Processor Forum. “Optional ...
TechRepublic

Design of FPGA Based 32-Bit Floating Point Arithmetic Unit and Verification of Its VHDL Code Using MATLAB

Most of the algorithms implemented in FPGAs used to be fixed-point. Floating-point operations are useful for computations involving large dynamic range, but they require significantly more resources ...
Business Wire

New Cadence Tensilica FloatingPoint DSP Family Delivers Scalable Performance for a Broad Range of Compute-Intensive Applications

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CDNS) today unveiled the Cadence ® Tensilica ® FloatingPoint DSP family, which provides a scalable and configurable solution ...
Semiconductor Engineering

AI Chips Must Get The Floating-Point Math Right

Most AI chips and hardware accelerators that power machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) applications include floating-point units (FPUs). Algorithms used in neural networks today are often ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Achieving Numerical Precision And Design Customization With Flexible Floating-Point IP

As defined by the IEEE 754 standard, floating-point values are represented in three fields: a significand or mantissa, a sign bit for the significand and an exponent field. The exponent is a biased ...
Design-Reuse

Sundance Unveils Floating-Point Library for TI Fixed-Point TMS320T DSP Family

RENO, NEVADA (April 13, 2005) - Sundance Digital Processing Inc,, a worldwide supplier and manufacturer of advanced digital signal processing (DSP) and reconfigurable computing platforms, today ...
Electronic Design

Floating-Point Digital Signal Controllers Cost Less Than $1

STMicroelectronics says its STM32F301/302/303 microcontrollers, based on the 72-MHz ARM Cortex-M4 core with floating-point unit (FPU), are the first to come in under one dollar in volume production ...
Design-Reuse

A license agreement has been signed between Gaisler Research and EADS Astrium GmbH for the use of the Gaisler Research Floating Point Unit

January 20, 2005-- A license agreement has been signed for the use of the Gaisler Research Floating Point Unit(GRFPU) in the AGGA-3 ASIC developed by EADS Astrium GmbH.The AGGA-3 is a ...
Electronic Design

Interview: Markus Levy Highlights The EEMBC Floating Point Benchmark

Markus Levy, founder and president of EEMBC, addresses the new EEMBC floating point benchmark. Wong: EEMBC has been around for more than 16 years, why the recent need for floating-point benchmarks?
Design News

Delfino Floating-Point Microcontroller

Texas Instruments Inc.'sfloating-point microcontroller (MCU) is for extreme temperature operation from 55to 210C. The SM320F28335-HT Delfino32-bit MCU provides real-time measurement and control for ...