In this video from the HPC Advisory Council Australia Conference, John Gustafson from the National University of Singapore presents: Beating Floating Point at its own game – Posit Arithmetic. “Dr.

In this video, John Gustafson from the National University of Singapore presents: Beyond Floating Point: Next Generation Computer Arithmetic. “A new data type called a “posit” is designed for direct ...

Floating-point arithmetic is a cornerstone of modern computational science, providing an efficient means to approximate real numbers within a finite precision framework. Its ubiquity across scientific ...

Floating-point arithmetic is a cornerstone of numerical computation, enabling the approximate representation of real numbers in a format that balances range and precision. Its widespread applicability ...

[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 ...

A way to represent very large and very small numbers using the same quantity of numeric positions. Floating point also enables calculating a wide range of numbers very quickly. Although floating point ...

There is a natural preference to use floating-point implementations in custom embedded applications because they offer a much higher dynamic range and as a byproduct bypass the design hassle of ...

Today’s digital signal processing applications such as radar, echo cancellation, and image processing are demanding more dynamic range and computation accuracy. Floating-point arithmetic units offer ...

Freescale Semiconductor has added floating point capability to its QorIQ Qonverge B4 range of DSP-based system-on-chip devices. The B4420 and B4860 are the first devices in the family to include ...

Last year, I was at the decision point. I needed to select a processor for the next version of Critical Link's MityDSP “custom-off-the-shelf” CPU platform—basically a collection of integrated building ...