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Electronic Design

Vector Floating-Point Unit Speeds ARM9

VECTOR FLOATING-POINT UNIT SPEEDS ARM9 NXP’s 90-nm, 208-MHz LPC32x0 is based on ARM’s ARM926EJ-S core plus a vector floating-point (VFP) coprocessor. The chip has 256 kbytes of SRAM plus 32-kbyte ...
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

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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...