Document: octave-fixed-manual
Title: Fixed Point Toolbox for Octave
Author: David Bateman and Laurent Mazet
Abstract: When implementing algorithms in hardware, it is common to reduce
 the accuracy of the representation of numbers to a smaller number of
 bits. This allows much lower complexity in the hardware, at the cost of
 accuracy and potential overflow problems. Such representations are known as
 fixed point.
 .
 The toolbox documented here supplies a fixed point type that allows Octave
 to model the effects of such a reduction in accuracy of the representation
 of numbers. The major advantage of this toolbox is that with correctly
 written Octave scripts, the same code can be used to test both fixed and
 floating point representations of numbers.
Section: Science/Mathematics

Format: PDF
Files: /usr/share/doc/octave-fixed/fixed.pdf.gz
