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Tutorial: Floating-point arithmetic on FPGAs

[Editor's note: For an intro to fixed-point math, see Fixed-Point DSP and Algorithm Implementation. For a comparison of fixed- and floating-point hardware, see Fixed vs. floating point: a surprisingly ...
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Floating Point Numbers

The term floating point is derived from the fact that there is no fixed number of digits before and after the decimal point; namely, the decimal point can float. There are also representations in ...
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How to implement double-precision floating-point on FPGAs

Floating-point arithmetic is used extensively in many applications across multiple market segments. These applications often require a large number of calculations and are prevalent in financial ...
Electronic Design

What’s the Difference Between Fixed-Point, Floating-Point, and Numerical Formats?

Embedded C and C++ programmers are familiar with signed and unsigned integers and floating-point values of various sizes, but a number of numerical formats can be used in embedded applications. Here ...
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Digital Core Design today announces the release of a Double Precision Floating Point Coprocessor

May 10, 2006 - Digital Core Design, the Intellectual Property (IP) provider, today announces the release of a DFPMU-DP – Double Precision Floating Point Coprocessor. The DFPMU-DP is a 64-bit Double ...