The term floating point is derived from the fact that there is no fixed number of digits before and after the decimal point; namely, the decimal point can float. There are also representations in ...

As you may or may not recall, way back in the mists of time that we used to call “2007”, I penned an article called BCD coming to an FPGA near you. In this humble offering, I noted that we require ...

bytes : byte2 byte1 byte4 byte3</pre> <BR>Now, I know that in the bit representation above, bit 1 is the sign bit, bits 2 through 9 are the exponent, and bits 10 through 32 are the ...

Floating point units (fpu) can increase the range and precision of mathematical calculations or enable greater throughput in less time, making it easier to meet real time requirements. Or, by enabling ...