EDN

Atmel develops floating point unit for 32-bit AVR UC3 MCUs

EMBEDDED WORLD 2010, Nuremberg, Germany—Atmel Corp. announced a new technology, a floating point unit, that is being designed for its 32-bit AVR UC3 product family. According to Atmel, floating point ...
EDN

ARM adds floating-point unit to processor cores

SAN JOSE, Calif. — ARM Holdings plc will describe the addition of floating-point math capabilities to its ARM9 and ARM10 RISC processor cores at this week's Embedded Processor Forum. “Optional ...
Hackaday

Reverse-Engineering The Polynomial Constants In The Pentium’s FPU

Released in 1993, Intel’s Pentium processor was a marvel of technological progress. Its floating point unit (FPU) was a big improvement over its predecessors that still used the venerable CORDIC ...
Electronic Design

Vector Floating-Point Unit Speeds ARM9

VECTOR FLOATING-POINT UNIT SPEEDS ARM9 NXP’s 90-nm, 208-MHz LPC32x0 is based on ARM’s ARM926EJ-S core plus a vector floating-point (VFP) coprocessor. The chip has 256 kbytes of SRAM plus 32-kbyte ...
Hackaday

The Pentium Processor’s Innovative (and Complicated) Method Of Multiplying By Three, Fast

[Ken Shirriff] has been sharing a really low-level look at Intel’s Pentium (1993) processor. The Pentium’s architecture was highly innovative in many ways, and one of [Ken]’s most recent discoveries ...
Electronic Design

Dealing with the Absence of an FPU Using Fixed Point in Ada

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 ...
Business Wire

New Cadence Tensilica FloatingPoint DSP Family Delivers Scalable Performance for a Broad Range of Compute-Intensive Applications

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CDNS) today unveiled the Cadence ® Tensilica ® FloatingPoint DSP family, which provides a scalable and configurable solution ...