In a recent survey conducted by AccelChip Inc. (recently acquired by Xilinx), 53% of the respondents identified floating- to fixed-point conversion as the most difficult aspect of implementing an ...

Santa Cruz, Calif. – Three EDA vendors are beefing up their offerings for DSP design this week. A common theme in the announcements is a tight link with Matlab, the primary tool used for DSP algorithm ...

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 ...