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TVLSI
2008
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Architectural Modifications to Enhance the Floating-Point Performance of FPGAs
With the density of FPGAs steadily increasing, FPGAs have reached the point where they are capable of implementing complex floating-point applications. However, their general-purpo...
Michael J. Beauchamp, Scott Hauck, Keith D. Underw...
TVLSI
2008
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Area-Efficient Arithmetic Expression Evaluation Using Deeply Pipelined Floating-Point Cores
Recently, it has become possible to implement floating-point cores on field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) to provide acceleration for the myriad applications that require high-p...
Ronald Scrofano, Ling Zhuo, Viktor K. Prasanna
CAD
2005
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Lossless compression of predicted floating-point geometry
The size of geometric data sets in scientific and industrial applications is constantly increasing. Storing surface or volume meshes in standard uncompressed formats results in la...
Martin Isenburg, Peter Lindstrom, Jack Snoeyink
SIAMSC
2008
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Accurate Floating-Point Summation Part II: Sign, K-Fold Faithful and Rounding to Nearest
In this Part II of this paper we first refine the analysis of error-free vector transformations presented in Part I. Based on that we present an algorithm for calculating the round...
Siegfried M. Rump, Takeshi Ogita, Shin'ichi Oishi
FPL
2006
Springer
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14 years 3 months ago
Architectural Modifications to Improve Floating-Point Unit Efficiency in FPGAs
FPGAs have reached densities that can implement floatingpoint applications, but floating-point operations still require a large amount of FPGA resources. One major component of IE...
Michael J. Beauchamp, Scott Hauck, Keith D. Underw...
FPGA
2006
ACM
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14 years 3 months ago
Embedded floating-point units in FPGAs
Due to their generic and highly programmable nature, FPGAs provide the ability to implement a wide range of applications. However, it is this nonspecific nature that has limited t...
Michael J. Beauchamp, Scott Hauck, Keith D. Underw...
FPL
2004
Springer
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14 years 3 months ago
Dual Fixed-Point: An Efficient Alternative to Floating-Point Computation
Abstract. This paper presents a new data representation known as Dual FiXedpoint (DFX), which employs a single bit exponent to select two different fixedpoint scalings. DFX provide...
Chun Te Ewe, Peter Y. K. Cheung, George A. Constan...
ARITH
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
A Software Implementation of the IEEE 754R Decimal Floating-Point Arithmetic Using the Binary Encoding Format
The IEEE Standard 754-1985 for Binary Floating-Point Arithmetic [1] was revised [2], and an important addition is the definition of decimal floating-point arithmetic. This is inte...
Marius Cornea, Cristina Anderson, John Harrison, P...
ICC
2008
IEEE
116views Communications» more  ICC 2008»
14 years 5 months ago
Haptic Data Transmission Based on the Prediction and Compression
—In this paper, we present a floating-point compression method using position prediction for haptic data transmission. The main objective of our work is to reduce the size of ban...
Yonghee You, Mee Young Sung