EDN

64-Bit Floating-Point Math the Easy Way

Because so many microcontrollers now include a floating-point unit (FPU) that performs math operations, engineers can tackle a wider range of applications that rely on precise values for control ...
EDN

MIPS Technologies offers ‘soft’ 64-bit core with floating-point unit

SAN JOSE — During the Embedded Processor Forum here today, MIPS Technologies Inc. announced a synthesizable 64-bit processor core with integrated floating-point unit. The company said the 5Kf core is ...
Electronic Design

64-bit Floating Point Coprocessor Supports IEEE 754 Calculations

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 ...
Hackaday

Making Floating Point Calculations Less Cursed When Accuracy Matters

An unfortunate reality of trying to represent continuous real numbers in a fixed space (e.g. with a limited number of bits) is that this comes with an inevitable loss of both precision and accuracy.
Electronic Design

Floating-Point Formats in the World of Machine Learning

Why floating point is important for developing machine-learning models. What floating-point formats are used with machine learning? Over the last two decades, compute-intensive artificial-intelligence ...