Because so many microcontrollers now include a floating-point unit (FPU) that performs math operations, engineers can tackle a wider range of applications that rely on precise values for control ...

BRISTOL, England — Fabless chip company ClearSpeed Technology plc has announced details of its second processor, the CSX600, a follow-on from the CS301 announced in November 2003. The new chip, which ...

In fact, the 16-bit posit emulation performed on par with the existing 64-bit floating point implementation on this particular model. Lawrence Livermore National Lab has been evaluating posits and ...

July 8, 2013-- Sydaap develops world’s first 64-bit precision floating point Fast Fourier Transform/Inverse Fast Fourier Transform hardware accelerator module suitable for LTE-Advanced, OFDM and for ...

It is the industry's only licensable, synthesizable 64-bit core with an integrated floating-point unit (FPU). "With features like an FPU and a dual-issue pipeline to increase processing throughput, ...

The format is just a 32-bit float that drops 13 precision bits to run on Tensor Cores. Thus, it has the precision of the FP16 (10 bits), but has the range of the FP32 (8 bits) IEEE 754 format.

Recently, a new 8-bit floating-point format ... Differences between floating point and integer quantization. ... GAP The Gap, Inc. 22.31-5.64 ...

Even with hardware assistance, a 32-bit division on a modern 64-bit x86 CPU can run between 9 and 15 cycles. ... cast the 8-bit numbers into 32-bit integers and then to floating point numbers.

The challenge of using smaller-format floating-point numbers is deciding how large of an exponent will be used. An 8-bit “minifloat” has a sign bit, a four-bit exponent, and three-bit mantissa ...