Shrinking feature sizes gives more headroom for designers to extend the functionality of microprocessors. The IEEE 754R working group has revised the IEEE 754-1985 Standard for Bi...
Interest in decimal arithmetic increased considerably in recent years. This paper presents new designs for decimal floating point (DFP) addition, multiplication, fused multiplyad...
Hossam A. H. Fahmy, Ramy Raafat, Amira M. Abdel-Ma...
Abstract-- Technological advances have made FPGAs an attractive platform for the acceleration of complex scientific applications. These applications demand high performance and hig...
In modern computers, the floating point unit is the part of the processor delivering the highest computing power and getting most attention from the design team. Performance of an...
The floating point unit of the next generation PowerPC is detailed. It has been tested at over 5 GHz. The design supports an extremely aggressive cycle time of 13 FO4 using a tech...
Son Dao Trong, Martin S. Schmookler, Eric M. Schwa...