Floating-point arithmetic is used extensively in many applications across multiple market segments. These applications often require a large number of calculations and are prevalent in financial ...

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 ...

Texas Instruments Incorporated has introduced the TMS320C6743 digital signal processor (DSP) which combines the ease-of-use and precision of floating-point programming with the connectivity and ...

To address the challenge, we propose a programmable LUT-based area-efficient PIM architecture capable of performing various low-precision floating point (FP) computations using a novel LUT-oriented ...

Although something that’s taken for granted these days, the ability to perform floating-point operations in hardware was, for the longest time, something reserved for people with big wallets. This ...

The Top 500 list of supercomputers has come and gone again, and vendors have engaged in their usual round of self-congratulations and performance posting. All the talk of FLOPs can get a little ...

For all the programming geeks out there (wheee), Beyond3d has posted up this bit which tackles the topic of multiple shader precision modes. If you're drawing a blank, remember that the GeForce FX has ...