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Floating Point Calculations And The ANSI C, C++, And Fortran Standard
White Papers These can result in differences in rounding and small variations in floating point results, which may be more or less accurate than the ANSI-conformant result. High application performance is an important goal of the Intel compilers, even at...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Random Number Generator To Create Random Number Sequences Software, Random Integers And Random Floating Point Numbers
Downloads Random Number Generator to create random number sequences software, random integers and random floating point numbers. Create a list of random numbers using this great random number generator. Some of the main features include: You can specify...
[April 12, 2008, 11:01]
48-bit Integer Audio Processing Beats 32-bit Floating Point For Professional Audio Applications
White Papers For a while, it was thought that the 32-bit floating point processors provided a simple and adequate solution to the issues of dynamic range and scaling inherent in professional audio processing. This paper discusses the differences between fixed...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
POWER2 Floating-Point Unit: Architecture And Implementation
White Papers The POWER version of the RS/6000 Floating-Point Unit (FPU) set a new standard for floating-point performance. Its innovative multiply- add fused (MAF) dataflow minimizes latency, rounding error, and chip busing.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Decimal Floating Point Computations In SAP NetWeaver 7.10
White Papers Most processor architectures support binary floating point in hardware. However, binary floating point is not suitable for financial or humancentric applications. SAP NetWeaver 7.10 ABAP kernel introduces a new SAP ABAP data type called "DECFLOAT...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Decimal Floating-Point In Z9: An Implementation And Testing Perspective
White Papers Use of the newly defined Decimal Floating-Point (DFP) format instead of binary floating-point is expected to significantly improve the performance of such applications. Although decimal arithmetic is widely used in commercial and financial...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
AMD64 Architecture Programmer's Manual Volume 5: 64-Bit Media And X87 Floating-Point Instructions
White Papers This volume describes the 64-bit media and x87 floating-point instructions. The AMD64 instruction set is divided into five subsets, which are General-purpose instructions, System instructions, 128-bit media instructions, 64-bit media instructions...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Test Generation For The Binary Floating Point Add Operation With Mask-Mask-Mask Constraints
White Papers The mathematical problem discussed is important for generating test cases in order to debug floating point adders designs. Floating point numbers are assumed to be written as strings of {0, 1} bits, in a format compatible with IEEE standard 754.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
FPgen - A Test Generation Framework For Datapath Floating-Point Verification
White Papers FPgen is a new test generation framework targeted toward the verification of the Floating Point (FP) datapath, through the generation of test cases. This framework provides the capacity to define virtually any architectural FP coverage model...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
AMD Athlon™ Processor Floating Point Capability
White Papers To deliver this ultimate visual computing experience, AMD has designed the AMD Athlon processor to include the most powerful floating point engine for x86 platforms. This white paper details the next-generation features and technology that set the...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
The Libm Library And Floating-Point Arithmetic In HP-UX For Itanium-Based Systems
White Papers This paper describes the HP-UX libm library, which provides mathematical functions for C, C++, and Fortran 90. The HP-UX libm library and compilers for Itanium-based systems provide a leading combination of functionality, quality, and performance.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Compiler Support Of Interval Arithmetic With Inline Code Generation And Nonstop Exception Handling
White Papers To guard against producing erroneous results, IEEE's floating-point exception handling is used in situations where no single floating-point number is the unambiguously correct result. In extended real interval systems, no exception handling is...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Implementing The "Simple" Closed Interval System
White Papers This white paper documents how interval constructs are mapped onto available IEEE .floating-point numbers with the goal of achieving both runtime performance and narrow result widths. The "Simple" interval system is designed to be easily and...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Intel Banks On Pentium III - Part II
News New instruction sets that will complement the usefulness of MMX technology - particularly the floating-point operations that are key to the delivery of 3-D images. All told, 70 new instructions have been incorporated into Pentium III to streamline...
[February 22, 1999, 9:20]
HP16C Emulator
Downloads It features both Integer and Floating-Point modes. Floating Point Mode: Extensive floating point calculations. The HP16C Emulator is a software simulation of the original HP-16C Computer Scientist calculator, made by Hewlett-Packard during the 80's...
[April 3, 2006, 1:02]
Intel Shows Teraflop Chips
News Intel chief executive Paul Otellini caused an early stir at the chipmaker's Developer Forum on Tuesday when he briefly showed off a silicon wafer containing chips capable of a trillion floating point operations per second.
[September 26, 2006, 18:20]
Intel 'jumping All Over' New Bug Scare
News Reported in Robert Collins' x86 Monthly Digest, a well-known Web site for observers of Intel activity, the brouhaha refers to an arcane problem allegedly experienced by Pentium II and Pentium Pro chips converting floating point to integer numbers.
[May 6, 1997, 10:45]
Five Years Ago: Intel 'jumping All Over' New Bug Scare
News Reported in Robert Collins' x86 Monthly Digest, a well-known Web site for observers of Intel activity, the brouhaha refers to an arcane problem allegedly experienced by Pentium II and Pentium Pro chips converting floating point to integer numbers.
[May 3, 2002, 7:01]
China Launches First Supercomputer
News Named the Legend Deepcomp 1800, Legend said its first supercomputer was able to reach a speed of 1.06 teraflops, or one trillion floating-point operations per second. A teraflop is a trillion floating-point operations per second.
[September 2, 2002, 8:57]
Formal Analysis And Verification Of An OFDM Modem Design Using HOL
White Papers The versatile expressive power of HOL helped model the original design at all abstraction levels starting from a floating-point model to the fixed-point design and then synthesized and implemented in FPGA technology.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
