New Block Floating Point Arithmetic Unit for processing AI/ML Workloads in FPGA

New Block Floating Point Arithmetic Unit for processing AI/ML Workloads in FPGA
by Daniel Nenni on 01-27-2020 at 8:34 am

Block Floating Point (BFP) is a hybrid of floating-point and fixed-point arithmetic where a block of data is assigned a common exponent. We describe a new arithmetic unit that natively performs Block Floating Point for common matrix arithmetic operations and creates floating-point results. The BFP arithmetic unit supports… Read More