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Simulink Fixed Point gets major upgrade

Natick, Mass. — The MathWorks today released Simulink Fixed Point 6, a major upgrade to its fixed-point tool. The new version of Simulink Fixed Point supports 128-bit word widths, up from a maximum of ...
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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 ...
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How to Reduce FPGA Logic Cell Usage by >x5 for Floating-Point FFTs

Here we provide rational for using Centar’s floating-point IP core for the new Altera Arria 10 and Stratix 10 FPGA platforms. After a short contextual discussion section, a comparison of various FFT ...
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Floating-point FFT with Minimal Hardware

There is a natural preference to use floating-point implementations in custom embedded applications because they offer a much higher dynamic range and as a byproduct bypass the design hassle of ...