EDN

Atmel develops floating point unit for 32-bit AVR UC3 MCUs

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 ...
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 ...
Nasdaq

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

Low-energy DSP IP optimizes power, performance and area, offering up to 40% area savings for mobile, automotive, consumer and hyperscale computing markets The highly scalable Cadence® Tensilica® ...
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 ...
Design-Reuse

Sundance Unveils Floating-Point Library for TI Fixed-Point TMS320T DSP Family

RENO, NEVADA (April 13, 2005) - Sundance Digital Processing Inc,, a worldwide supplier and manufacturer of advanced digital signal processing (DSP) and reconfigurable computing platforms, today ...
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 ...
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 ...