EDN

Fixed-Point DSP and Algorithm Implementation

[Editor's note: For an intro to floating-point math, see Tutorial: Floating-point arithmetic on FPGAs. For a comparison of fixed- and floating-point hardware, see Fixed vs. floating point: a ...
EDN

How to create fixed- and floating-point IIR filters for FPGAs

Infinite impulse response (IIR) filter implementations can have different forms (direct, standard, ladder, …), different math (fixed-point or floating-point), and different quantization (number of ...
Electronic Design

The MathWorks updates Fixed-Point toolbox

The MathWorks has introduced Fixed-Point Toolbox 2, which the company said provides enhanced floating-to-fixed-point conversion capabilities and accelerated fixed-point MATLAB algorithms able to ...
Design-Reuse

How to achieve 1 trillion floating-point operations-per-second in an FPGA

Based on recent technological developments, high-performance floating-point signal processing can, for the very first time, be easily achieved using FPGAs. To date, virtually all FPGA-based signal ...
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

Interview: Markus Levy Highlights The EEMBC Floating Point Benchmark

Wong: EEMBC has been around for more than 16 years, why the recent need for floating-point benchmarks? Levy: While floating-point units in processors have been in use for decades, in recent times ...