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Atmel develops floating point unit for 32-bit AVR UC3 MCUs

EMBEDDED WORLD 2010, Nuremberg, Germany—Atmel Corp. announced a new technology, a floating point unit, that is being designed for its 32-bit AVR UC3 product family. According to Atmel, floating point ...
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Would you like some floating point with that?

Some of the big names in MCUs have recently announced parts with the ARM Cortex M4F processor core. ARM calls the Cortex-M4 processor a digital signal controller crossing a DSP with a MCU for double ...
Electronic Design

Vector Floating-Point Unit Speeds ARM9

VECTOR FLOATING-POINT UNIT SPEEDS ARM9 NXP’s 90-nm, 208-MHz LPC32x0 is based on ARM’s ARM926EJ-S core plus a vector floating-point (VFP) coprocessor. The chip has 256 kbytes of SRAM plus 32-kbyte ...
Electronic Design

Dealing with the Absence of an FPU Using Fixed Point in Ada

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 ...