Posit arithmetic and its applications
The end of Dennad scaling, as well as the arrival of the post-Moore era, has resulted in a slowdown in the improvement of modern computer systems' performance. As a result, the challenges in computer architecture are even more difficult nowadays, given that we have lost the resources that previ...
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| Format: | doctoral thesis |
| Publication Date: | 2025 |
| Country: | España |
| Institution: | Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) |
| Repository: | Docta Complutense |
| Language: | English |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/117684 |
| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/117684 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | 004.4(043.2) Arquitectura de computadores Informática (Informática) 1203.17 Informática |
| Summary: | The end of Dennad scaling, as well as the arrival of the post-Moore era, has resulted in a slowdown in the improvement of modern computer systems' performance. As a result, the challenges in computer architecture are even more difficult nowadays, given that we have lost the resources that previously grew exponentially thanks to Dennard scaling and Moore's law. All os this has led to creitical areas in this new era. Among them, hardware/software co-design for high-level and domain-specific languages stands out, which allows for both performance and energy efficiency to be increased. Associated with the specialization of hardware architectures, new representation formats have emerged in recent years to increase the performace of modern applications. Specifically, the IEEE 754 format for representing floating-point numbers is currently used in most modern computers to represent and operate with real numbers. However, in this new era, the supremacy of this format has been questioned because it is not optimal for all types of applications... |
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