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Floating-point FFT with Minimal Hardware

There is a natural preference to use floating-point implementations in custom embedded applications because they offer a much higher dynamic range and as a byproduct bypass the design hassle of ...
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How to build ultra-fast floating-point FFTs in FPGAs

Engineers targeting DSP to FPGAs have traditionally used fixed-point arithmetic, mainly because of the high cost associated with implementing floating-point arithmetic. That cost comes in the form of ...
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Fixed vs. floating point: a surprisingly hard choice

[Editor's note: For an intro to floating-point math, see Tutorial: Floating-point arithmetic on FPGAs. For an intro to fixed-point math, see Fixed-Point DSP and Algorithm Implementation.] The ...
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Altera Introduces Industry's First FPGA Floating-Point FFT IP Cores

New Cores Leverage Stratix Device Family's Embedded DSP Blocks to Deliver a Cost-Effective Floating-Point FFT FPGA Solution San Jose, Calif., June 3, 2003—Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) today ...