[Editor's note: For an intro to floating-point math, see Tutorial: Floating-point arithmetic on FPGAs. For a comparison of fixed- and floating-point hardware, see Fixed vs. floating point: a ...

In a recent survey conducted by AccelChip Inc. (recently acquired by Xilinx), 53% of the respondents identified floating- to fixed-point conversion as the most difficult aspect of implementing an ...

Mathematics of Operations Research, Vol. 7, No. 1 (Feb., 1982), pp. 1-13 (13 pages) In this paper an algorithm based on the principle of simplicial approximation is introduced to compute fixed points ...

The MathWorks has introduced Fixed-Point Toolbox 2, which the company said provides enhanced floating-to-fixed-point conversion capabilities and accelerated fixed-point MATLAB algorithms able to ...

The MathWorks on Tuesday released its new Fixed-Point Toolbox and Simulink Fixed Point, which add fixed-point design capabilities and better fixed-point simulation in MatLab and Simulink, respectively ...

Newton's method is actually a special case of what is generally known as a fixed point method. These methods rely on the Fixed point Theorem: ...

If you are used to writing software for modern machines, you probably don’t think much about computing something like one divided by three. Modern computers handle floating point quite well. However, ...