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Floating Audio Buttons
Downloads The software will generate the code for sound encoded Flash audio buttons and also the code if want to have static voice/music button or floating (Float according to user scroll the page) audio button.
[March 5, 2008, 8:31]
Floating Computers Fight Climate Change
News The Argo programme uses thousands of floating devices, like the one pictured, which provide continuous data from even the remotest parts of the world's oceans. The Argo programme was started back in 2000 — with the first UK float deployed in 2001...
[November 23, 2007, 14:29]
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...
[August 31, 2007, 0:00]
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.
[July 8, 2004, 0:00]
Music Store Experiments With Floating Prices
News But the company hopes that the promotion will help show other e-commerce services the benefits of floating prices. The concept of demand-based pricing, in which prices rise as more people want an item, has been floating around e-commerce, and...
[January 9, 2004, 7:35]
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...
[March 6, 2007, 23:00]
EMC Semi-floating VMware
Blog Rather bad form of EMC's Joe Tucci not to mention this yesterday at the RSA Conference, but the storage firm has decided to sell 10 percent of VMware stock this summer in an initial public offering. Analysts think this will help EMC to cash in on...
[February 8, 2007, 1:07]
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...
[August 20, 2004, 0:00]
Intel Sharpens Its Memory
News Company researchers plan to present a paper this week at the International Electron Devices Meeting in San Francisco outlining its work on "floating-body cell" transistors, said Mike Mayberry, director of components research with Intel's...
[December 12, 2006, 7:40]
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]
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.
[April 11, 2007, 0:00]
Pentium Pro, Pentium II Bug Warning Hits Intel
News The bug concerns the way floating point numbers are converted into integer numbers. According to Collins, "The host software is supposed to be warned by the microprocessor when such a floating point conversion error occurs; a specific error flag is...
[May 6, 1997, 9:40]
Mobile Phone Applications Development
White Papers A class for 64 bit floating point arithmetic was implemented, as DoJa did not support floating point arithmetic. Wipro's client is a Japanese mobile phone manufacturer. The challenge was to develop software for i-mode based mobile phones on an...
[November 19, 2004, 23:00]
One Year Ago: Pentium Pro, Pentium II Bug Warning Hits Intel
News The bug concerns the way floating point numbers are converted into integer numbers. According to Collins, "The host software is supposed to be warned by the microprocessor when such a floating point conversion error occurs; a specific error flag is...
[May 5, 1998, 6:00]
Spansion Sees Profits In Flash Memory's Future
News The memory cells in conventional floating-gate flash consist of a sandwich of materials: polysilicon is encased between two layers of silicon dioxide, or glass. Spansion already makes flash chips that rely on charge trapping, which is similar but...
[November 29, 2007, 14:05]
Microsoft Opens 64-bit Windows
News The Itanium chip, aimed at heavy-duty workstations and servers for businesses and engineering, supports greater amounts of system memory and offers stronger floating-point, or mathematical, capabilities than current 32-bit desktop processors.
[August 28, 2001, 17:16]
