EDN

ARM adds floating-point unit to processor cores

SAN JOSE, Calif. — ARM Holdings plc will describe the addition of floating-point math capabilities to its ARM9 and ARM10 RISC processor cores at this week's Embedded Processor Forum. “Optional ...
Hackaday

Reverse-Engineering The Polynomial Constants In The Pentium’s FPU

Released in 1993, Intel’s Pentium processor was a marvel of technological progress. Its floating point unit (FPU) was a big improvement over its predecessors that still used the venerable CORDIC ...
TechRepublic

Design of FPGA Based 32-Bit Floating Point Arithmetic Unit and Verification of Its VHDL Code Using MATLAB

Most of the algorithms implemented in FPGAs used to be fixed-point. Floating-point operations are useful for computations involving large dynamic range, but they require significantly more resources ...
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 ...
Design-Reuse

Infineon Adds to its Core Processor Design Portfolio; Announces Floating Point Unit for TriCore Unified Processor Architecture

Munich, Germany – July 5, 2002 – Infineon Technologies (FSE/NYSE: IFX), a leading provider of system-on-chip semiconductors for automotive, industrial and communication applications, announced ...
Guru3D.com

AMD Zen 5 Architecture to Introduce Enhanced 512-bit Floating Point Unit

The upcoming AMD Zen 5 CPU architecture is set to bring a major boost in performance for certain types of computing tasks, specifically those that use AVX-512 instructions, with some tests showing ...
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 ...
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 ...
Redmond Magazine

Intel Issues Advisory on Lazy Floating Point Speculative Execution Flaw

This week, yet another speculative execution processor vulnerability was uncovered, namely "lazy floating point (FP) state save/restore." US-CERT on Wednesday issued an advisory, pointing to Intel's ...