Hackaday

Analyzing The FScale Instruction In Intel’s 8087 FPU

During his continuing analysis of the architecture and microcode of Intel’s highly influential 8087 floating point unit (FPU) ...
EDN

32-Bit MCU with Integrated Floating Point Unit

Microchip Technology Inc. rolled out its new series within its high-performance PIC32MZ family of 32-bit microcontrollers (MCUs) that features an integrated hardware floating point unit (FPU) for high ...
Semiconductor Engineering

AI Chips Must Get The Floating-Point Math Right

Most AI chips and hardware accelerators that power machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) applications include floating-point units (FPUs). Algorithms used in neural networks today are often ...
Electronic Design

Floating-Point Formats in the World of Machine Learning

Why floating point is important for developing machine-learning models. What floating-point formats are used with machine learning? Over the last two decades, compute-intensive artificial-intelligence ...
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 ...