EMBEDDED WORLD 2010, Nuremberg, Germany—Atmel Corp. announced a new technology, a floating point unit, that is being designed for its 32-bit AVR UC3 product family. According to Atmel, floating point ...
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 ...
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 ...
Munich, Germany – July 5, 2002 – Infineon Technologies (FSE/NYSE: IFX), a leading provider of system-on-chip semiconductors for automotive, industrial and communication applications, announced ...
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 ...
The upcoming AMD Zen 5 CPU architecture is set to bring a major boost in performance for certain types of computing tasks, specifically those that use AVX-512 instructions, with some tests showing ...
Many numerical applications typically use floating-point types to compute values. However, in some platforms, a floating-point unit may not be available. Other platforms may have a floating-point unit ...
In order to meet the requirements in real time DSP applications MAC unit is required. The speed of the MAC unit determines the overall performance of the system. MAC unit basically consists of ...
This week, yet another speculative execution processor vulnerability was uncovered, namely "lazy floating point (FP) state save/restore." US-CERT on Wednesday issued an advisory, pointing to Intel's ...