EDN

Floating- to fixed-point MATLAB algorithm conversion for FPGAs

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 ...
EDN

Floating-point DSP improves price/performance

Providing 1,500 MFLOPS at a suggested price of $18, the 250-MHz TMS320C6711D digital signal processor enables system designers to improve clock speed by up to 150% while decreasing DSP costs by 25% ...
Electronic Design

Floating-Point DSP Accelerates To 1,500 MFLOPS

The company has upped the ante on its TMS320C6711 DSP by raising floating-point performance up to 1,500 MFLOPS, while maintaining the same package, functions, and instruction compatibility. The device ...
Hackaday

Fixed Point Math Exposed

If you are used to writing software for modern machines, you probably don’t think much about computing something like one divided by three. Modern computers handle floating point quite well. However, ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Data Formats For Inference On The Edge

AI/ML training traditionally has been performed using floating point data formats, primarily because that is what was available. But this usually isn’t a viable option for inference on the edge, where ...