Network World

Everything you need to know about FLOPs

A FLOP is a single floating‑point operation, meaning one arithmetic calculation (add, subtract, multiply, or divide) on ...
Ars Technica

What are the best ways to reduce floating point error?

I am working on a viewshed* algorithm that does some floating point arithmetic. The algorithm sacrifices accuracy for speed and so only builds an approximate viewshed. The algorithm iteratively ...
Nature

Floating-Point Arithmetic and Numerical Computation Verification

Floating-point arithmetic is a cornerstone of modern computational science, providing an efficient means to approximate real numbers within a finite precision framework. Its ubiquity across scientific ...
EDN

FPGA design suite aids FP math operations

ISE Design Suite 13.3 features new capabilities for DSP designers to easily implement bit-accurate single, double and full custom precision floating-point math operations in Xilinx FPGAs. This flow is ...