ARM Holdings has followed MIPS Technologies into adding a synthesisable floating point unit to its library of processor cores. The VFP9-S, unveiled at the Embedded Processor Forum last week, is ...
Texas Instruments has introduced its latest floating-point DSPs, the TMS320C6722, TMS320C6726, and TMS320C6727, which include architectural enhancements to better meet the needs of high-quality-audio ...
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.
Lazarus, a new anime series from Cowboy Bebop director Shinichirō Watanabe, is coming soon: The show is set to premiere on April 5 at midnight, on Adult Swim’s Toonami block (episodes will be on Max ...
UK veteran and near-walking-legend of the electronic scene, Floating Points is prone to reinvention. The last most audiences heard of him, he united with Pharoah Sanders and the London Symphony ...
U.K. electronic producer Floating Points (aka Sam Shepherd) shared a new track on Friday morning. “Coorabell” is the B-side to last month’s “LesAlpx,” and both tracks are thumping left-field ...
An unfortunate reality of trying to represent continuous real numbers in a fixed space (e.g. with a limited number of bits) is that this comes with an inevitable loss of both precision and accuracy.
Floating Points – aka Sam Shepherd – doesn’t do things by halves. People coming to his (sold out) gig at Outernet were ...