EDN

TMS320C6727B is a 32-/64-Bit Floating-Point Digital Signal Processor

This post sponsored by Texas Instruments. The TMS320C672x is the next generation of Texas Instruments' C67x generation of high-performance 32-/64-bit floating-point digital signal processors. The ...
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 ...
Design-Reuse

Low power 32-bit processor supporting single precision floating point in hardware

Hardware floating point can be attractive in many embedded applications where integer or fixed point algorithms produce either overflow/underflow or u ...
Electronic Design

MCU Family Suits Fieldbus Gateways In Process Control

The R5F64186NFB and R5F64186DFB from Renesas Technology incorporate a high-performance 32-bit CISC CPU and a 32-bit single-precision floating-point unit. Renesas Technology America Inc. has introduced ...
New Electronics

Tachyum successfully tests BF16 on Prodigy FPGA hardware

BF16, or bfloat16, is a shortened floating point data type based on the IEEE 32-bit single-precision floating point data type (f32) and is used to accelerate machine learning by reducing storage ...
Design-Reuse

Floating-point FFT with Minimal Hardware

There is a natural preference to use floating-point implementations in custom embedded applications because they offer a much higher dynamic range and as a byproduct bypass the design hassle of ...
Computerworld

When is it faster to have 64 bits?

Q: I’ve seen much news about 64-bit systems lately. Vendors claim 64 bits are faster than 32 bits, and it seems the fastest CPUs have 64-bit capability. Can I take advantage of 64-bit operations to ...