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 ...

Engineers targeting DSP to FPGAs have traditionally used fixed-point arithmetic, mainly because of the high cost associated with implementing floating-point arithmetic. That cost comes in the form of ...

More recently, DSP has offered another step up: floating-point DSP. Floating-point DSPs offer extra hardware for floating-point addition and multiplication. That means even more speed, as well as the ...

Once the domain of esoteric scientific and business computing, floating point calculations are now practically everywhere. From video games to large language models and kin, it would seem that a ...