A mathematical circuit that performs high-speed floating point operations. Also called a "floating point unit" (FPU), the math coprocessor may be a stand-alone chip or circuits built into the CPU.

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CDNS) today unveiled the Cadence ® Tensilica ® FloatingPoint DSP family, which provides a scalable and configurable solution ...

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 ...

Many numerical applications typically use floating-point types to compute values. However, in some platforms, a floating-point unit may not be available. Other platforms may have a floating-point unit ...

Released in 1993, Intel’s Pentium processor was a marvel of technological progress. Its floating point unit (FPU) was a big improvement over its predecessors that still used the venerable CORDIC ...

Texas Instruments (www.ti.com) has introduced the TMS320C2834x Delfino microcontroller family, which offers double the floating point performance of existing TMS320C2000 devices plus 516KB of single ...

Since HUAWEI, Google, and Apple are all touting hardware-based neural processors or engines, you might think that machine learning requires a dedicated piece of hardware. It doesn’t. Neural networks ...