The folks at Fintronic USA Inc. are known for their high-speed, high accuracy Verilog simulator – Super FinSim. The high performance of this simulation engine is achieved by using a mixed compiled and ...

Microsoft's Visual Basic programming language has variable types for three different kinds of numbers: integer, floating-point and decimal. Integer variables range from a short 2-byte format to a long ...

An unfortunate reality of trying to represent continuous real numbers in a fixed space (e.g. with a limited number of bits) is that this comes with an inevitable loss of both precision and accuracy.

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 ...

Floating-point processing is widely used in computing for many different applications. In most software languages, floating-point variables are denoted as “float†or double.†Integer variables are ...

Although something that’s taken for granted these days, the ability to perform floating-point operations in hardware was, for the longest time, something reserved for people with big wallets. This ...