Abstract: The IEEE 754 floating-point standard is the most used representation for real numbers in modern computer systems, despite issues in accuracy for certain applications. The posit format, which ...

In 1985, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) established IEEE 754, a standard for floating point formats and arithmetic that would become the model for practically all FP ...

As more applications become more compute-intensive, a seeming detail—the way the application represents numbers internally—can make or break a project. This is no news for experienced digital signal ...

Abstract: Floating-point division is an important operation in scientific computing and multimedia applications. This paper presents and compares two division algorithms for an x86 microprocessor, ...

The uM-FPU64 floating point coprocessor chip provides support for IEEE 754-compatible, 64-bit floating point and integer calculations, expanded digital I/O, and analog input capabilities as well as ...

Beforediscussing a new approach that enables floating-point implementation inhardware with performance similar to that of fixed-point processing, it isfirst necessary to discuss the reason why ...

[Editor's note: For an intro to fixed-point math, see Fixed-Point DSP and Algorithm Implementation. For a comparison of fixed- and floating-point hardware, see Fixed vs. floating point: a surprisingly ...