The SOFTNUM project, funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 101031148, has introduced a novel paradigm where number formats are software-defined rather than hardwired. This advancement moves beyond traditional computing, which relies on conventional hardware-supported floating-point number formats. In […]
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Our group has published a new paper in the IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing. In this study, we introduced Software-Defined Floating-Point (SDF) number formats designed to enhance the performance of the Belief Propagation (BP) algorithm, which is widely used in fields like machine learning, communications, and robotics. Traditional […]
Computing devices implement computer arithmetic as basic functionality, and they implement the same, standardized number formats in order to support software portability. However, with Moore’s Law ending, we question whether it remains the best approach to achieve high performance and low energy consumption by applying the same standardized number formats […]