Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:46:49 BST CiteULike: mmuecke's library [380 articles] http://www.citeulike.org/user/mmuecke/article/2642887 CiteULike.org en-gb Copyright © 2004-2008 citeulike.org http://www.citeulike.org/user/mmuecke/article/2642887 <i>Field-Programmable Logic and Applications: Reconfigurable Computing Is Going Mainstream (2002), pp. 657-666.</i><br /><br />We present a parameterized floating-point library for use with reconfigurable hardware. Our format is both general and flexible. All IEEE formats are a subset of our format, as are all previously published floating-point formats for reconfigurable hardware. We have developed a library of fully parameterized hardware modules for format control, arithmetic operations and conversion to and from any fixed-point format. The format converters allow for hybrid implementations that combine both fixed and floating-point calculations. This permits the designer to choose between the increased range of floating-point and the increased precision of fixed-point within the same application. We illustrate the use of this library with a hybrid implementation of the K-means clustering algorithm applied to multispectral satellite images. A Library of Parameterized Floating-Point Modules and Their Use Pavle Belanović Miriam Leeser doi:10.1007/3-540-46117-5_68 Field-Programmable Logic and Applications: Reconfigurable Computing Is Going Mainstream (2002), pp. 657-666. 2008-04-08T21:33:58-00:00 2002 Field-Programmable Logic and Applications: Reconfigurable Computing Is Going Mainstream 657 666 floating_point fpga fpgasupercomputing