Electronic Design

Vector Floating-Point Unit Speeds ARM9

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 ...
EDN

ARM adds floating-point unit to processor cores

SAN JOSE, Calif. — ARM Holdings plc will describe the addition of floating-point math capabilities to its ARM9 and ARM10 RISC processor cores at this week's Embedded Processor Forum. “Optional ...
EDN

…and adds floating point unit to TriCore processor

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 ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Achieving Numerical Precision And Design Customization With Flexible Floating-Point IP

As defined by the IEEE 754 standard, floating-point values are represented in three fields: a significand or mantissa, a sign bit for the significand and an exponent field. The exponent is a biased ...
Business Wire

New Cadence Tensilica FloatingPoint DSP Family Delivers Scalable Performance for a Broad Range of Compute-Intensive Applications

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CDNS) today unveiled the Cadence ® Tensilica ® FloatingPoint DSP family, which provides a scalable and configurable solution ...
Semiconductor Engineering

AI Chips Must Get The Floating-Point Math Right

Most AI chips and hardware accelerators that power machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) applications include floating-point units (FPUs). Algorithms used in neural networks today are often ...
Electronic Design

Dealing with the Absence of an FPU Using Fixed Point in Ada

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 ...