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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… (More)
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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… (More)
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2017
2017
Pulse compression for velocity search based on half precision floating point format
Traditional methods of target velocity search based on pulse compression using GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) with single… (More)
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2016
2016
Half-precision Floating-point Ray Traversal
Fraction (10 bits) Sign (1 bit) Exponent (5 bits) 16-bit floating-point format defined in IEEE 754-2008 standard Storage support… (More)
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2015
2015
Using Half-Precision Floating-Point Numbers for Storing Bounding Volume Hierarchies
Bounding volume hierarchies, which are commonly used to speed up ray tracing, are heavily accessed during ray traversal. Reducing… (More)
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2013
2013
60-GHz demonstration of an SFQ half-precision bit-serial floating-point adder using 10 kA/cm2 Nb process
We are developing a large-scale reconfigurable data-path (LSRDP) based on single-flux-quantum (SFQ) circuits to establish a… (More)
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2011
2011
Design and Implementation of Component Circuits of an SFQ Half-Precision Floating-Point Adder Using 10-kA/cm$^{2}$ Nb Process
We have been developing a large-scale reconfigurable data-path (LSRDP) based on single-flux-quantum (SFQ) circuits to establish a… (More)
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2009
2009
Design, Implementation and On-Chip High-Speed Test of SFQ Half-Precision Floating-Point Multiplier
We are developing a large-scale reconfigurable data path (LSRDP) using single-flux-quantum (SFQ) circuits as a fundamental… (More)
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2009
2009
CT image reconstruction on Intel Larrabee using half precision floating-point values
Computed tomography is a highly quantitative modality where the data values processed are of a high dynamic range and therefore… (More)
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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… (More)
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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… (More)
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