Electronic Design

HPC And “Big Data” Apps Tap Floating-Point Number Compression

Floating-point values contain three fields: a sign bit, exponent bits, and significand or mantissa bits. The IEEE-754 floating-point number format defined a common floating-point format that most ...
Electronic Design

Floating Point Compression Is At A Loss For Loss

Promising to speed up a wide variety of computing apps, Prism FP debuts as the first compression technology to provide lossless and near lossless compression of floating point data types. EMBEDDED ...
Ars Technica

Floating point data compression

I currently have a list of floating point data where successive values are very similar. (The data is just a function sampled at small, regular intervals.) Rather than storing all the values directly, ...
Medindia

Samplify Systems Announces Availability of Prism FP Floating Point Compression

SAN JOSE, Calif., May 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- EMBEDDED SYSTEMS CONFERENCE -- Samplify Systems, Inc., a real-time signal-compression technology company, announces the availability of Prism FP™, the ...