EDN

Precision voltage reference uses EEPROM and floating gate trim

Precision Voltage References have been difficult to achieve using conventional process technology. This is evident by the high cost of such products. One measure of the need for a more precise ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Achieving Numerical Precision And Design Customization With Flexible Floating-Point IP

As defined by the IEEE 754 standard, floating-point values are represented in three fields: a significand or mantissa, a sign bit for the significand and an exponent field. The exponent is a biased ...
EDN

Variable-precision fixed/floating-point formats for Verilog

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 ...
Design-Reuse

Xilinx ISE Design Suite 13.3 Full Custom Precision Floating-Point Support Extends Productivity for DSP Designers

New Bit and Cycle Accurate, Single, Double and Full Custom Precision Floating-Point Now Available in System Generator for DSP SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 1, 2011 -- Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today ...
Semiconductor Engineering

A PIM Architecture That Supports Floating Point-Precision Computations Within The Memory Chip

To address the challenge, we propose a programmable LUT-based area-efficient PIM architecture capable of performing various low-precision floating point (FP) computations using a novel LUT-oriented ...