Hackaday

Faster Integer Division With Floating Point

Multiplication on a common microcontroller is easy. But division is much more difficult. Even with hardware assistance, a 32-bit division on a modern 64-bit x86 CPU can run between 9 and 15 cycles.
EDN

Microchip Expands High-Performance 32-bit MCU Family With Integrated Floating Point Unit Series

For an overview of the PIC32MZ family, please visit: http://www.microchip.com/PIC32MZ-091415a. Accelerating product cycles and rapidly evolving customer demands are ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Will Floating Point 8 Solve AI/ML Overhead?

While the media buzzes about the Turing Test-busting results of ChatGPT, engineers are focused on the hardware challenges of running large language models and other deep learning networks. High on the ...
Electronics Weekly

Still good reasons to design in 8-bit MCUs

With the rise of the ARM processor architecture and the widespread adoption of 32-bit microcontrollers it would be all too easy to assume that as 32-bit chips fall in price and power then the argument ...
New Electronics

Arduino Uno scales performance with new 32-Bit versions

Arduino, the open-source hardware and software platform, has launched its next-generation UNO board, a significant revision of its 8-bit technology. Powered by a 32-bit microcontroller, the new UNO R4 ...
Design-Reuse

Asic Land Co. Ltd Licenses Andes Technology Corp. N1337 with Single-Precision Floating-Point Unit for Voice Recognition Application

The N1337 1-GHz Clock Delivering 2.05 DMIPS/MHz Plus Floating-Point Unit Serves Asic Land's Compute Intensive Voice Recognition Application HSINCHU, TAIWAN -- November 2, 2017 - Andes Technology ...
Electronic Design

11 Myths About 8-Bit Microcontrollers

This file type includes high-resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. Wayne Freeman, Campaign Manager, MCU8 Business Unit, Microchip Technology Inc. The venerable 8-bit microcontroller (MCU ...