The nature and heterogeneity of modern workloads force hardware designers to choose between general-purpose processors, which come with superior flexibility, and highly-tailored accelerators that ...

64-bit computing is replacing 32-bit, mainly because 64-bit enables faster hardware and software. Here's the rundown on the ongoing 32-bit vs. 64-bit debate.

Recently, a new 8-bit floating-point format (FP8) has been suggested for efficient deep-learning network training. As some layers in neural networks can be trained in FP8 as opposed to the ...

Recent versions of microprocessors exhibit performance characteristics for 32 bit floating point arithmetic (single precision) that is substantially higher than 64 bit floating point arithmetic ...

There are 64-bit floating point values closer to 3.4028235e+38 than the max 32-bit value, so we end up throwing an exception. We should, instead, try casting to float and see whether the result is ...

We caught up with Gustafson at ISC19. For that particular crowd, the supercomputing set, one of the primary advantages of the posits format is that you can get more precision and dynamic range using ...

If a multi-core solution is necessary the APS5V (RV32IMAC) is available. If floating point is needed then the single precision FPS6V (RV32IMACF) can be used or the FPS8V (RV32GC) for double precision ...

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.

Achieving Numerical Precision And Design Customization With Flexible Floating-Point IP A better approach for meeting power, performance and area objectives.