IEEE

A Software Implementation of the IEEE 754R Decimal Floating-Point Arithmetic Using the Binary Encoding Format

Abstract: The IEEE Standard 754-1985 for binary floating-point arithmetic [19] was revised [20], and an important addition is the definition of decimal floating-point arithmetic [8], [24]. This is ...
IEEE

Hardware design of a Binary Integer Decimal-based floating-point adder

Abstract: Because of the growing importance of decimal floating-point (DFP) arithmetic, specifications for it are included in the IEEE Draft Standard for Floating-point Arithmetic (IEEE P754). In this ...
EDN

Algorithms go from floating- to fixed-point

Migrating signal-processing algorithms from floating- to fixed-point is often necessary to meet various design constraints, including real-time performance, cost and power dissipation. The migration ...
Neowin

Half is a new binary floating-point type in .NET 5 Preview 7 to speed up ML workflows

In .NET 5 Preview 7, Microsoft has now introduced another floating-point datatype alongside the standard Float and Double. Dubbed Half, the new datatype is equivalent to binary16, which is specified ...