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Half-precision floating-point format

Known as: Float16, Half-float, Half-precision 
In computing, half precision is a binary floating-point computer number format that occupies 16 bits (two bytes in modern computers) in computer… 
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2018
2018
IMPLEMENTATION OF HALF PRECISION FLOATING POINT ARITHMETIC OPERATIONS FOR DSP APPLICATIONS
—For dealing with digital signals in real time, parameters like, speed of operation, hardware requirement, power and area, must… 
2018
2018
Impact of Vectorization Over 16-bit Data-Types on GPUs
Since the introduction of Single Instruction Multiple Thread (SIMT) GPU architectures, vectorization has seldom been recommended… 
2018
2018
Half-precision Floating Point on Spiking Neural Networks Simulations in FPGA
The use of half-precision floating-point numbers (hFP) in simulations of spiking neural networks (SNN) was investigated. The hFP… 
2017
2017
Towards numerical benchmark for half-precision floating point arithmetic
With NVIDA Tegra Jetson X1 and Pascal P100 GPUs, NVIDIA introduced hardware-based computation on FP16 numbers also called half… 
2011
2011
Fully Gravure Printed Half Adder on Plastic Foils
All-printed half adders will be the first step to the way of printing an arithmetic logic unit which will be further expanded to… 
2010
2010
A decimal floating-point fused-multiply-add unit
This paper presents the first hardware implementation of a fully parallel decimal floating-point fused-multiply-add unit… 
2009
2009
Design and Implementation and On-Chip High-Speed Test of SFQ Half-Precision Floating-Point Adders
We are developing a large-scale reconfigurable data-path (LSRDP) based on single-flux-quantum (SFQ) circuits to establish a… 
2008
2008
A broad spectrum neutron spectrometer utilizing a high energy Bonner sphere extension
2005
2005
A low-leakage twin-precision multiplier using reconfigurable power gating
A twin-precision multiplier that uses reconfigurable power gating is presented. Employing power cut-off techniques in… 
2004
2004
The accuracy of dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA), weight, and P2 back fat to predict half-carcass and primal-cut composition in pigs within and across research experiments
A Hologic QDR4500A dual energy X-ray absorptiometer (DXA) was used to measure body composition in 199 half-carcasses ranging from… 
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