Developing fixed-point algorithm descriptions used to require tradeoffs between design functionality, modeling of numerical precision, and validation (simulation) speed. Now, a new class of C++ ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about fitness, health and wearable tech Algorithms have taken on an almost mythical significance in the modern world. They ...

What is an application engine and why is it necessary? Broadly defined, it is circuitry dedicated purely to the execution of a given algorithm or set of algorithms on a system-on-chip (SoC) device. It ...

Increasingly FPGAs are being used to perform signal-processing tasks, particularly in computationally demanding application areas such as video processing and communications. Their massive parallelism ...