Re: Fixed-Point toolbox for octave-forge

[Quentin Spencer]

You've made some very nice contributions to octave lately. Thank you. 
For what it's worth, I've been inverting Galois matrices lately and I'm 
seeing about a 300x speedup using your gfinv function compared to the 
equivalent in Matlab.

-Quentin


David Bateman wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> I've just committed a fixed-point toolbox for octave to octave-forge.
> The toolbox, creates numbers with a known number of bits before and
> after the decimal point and then allows arbitrary mathematical
> operations on them, taking into account the loss of precision at each
> stage. This simulates a real limited complexity implementation of an
> algorithm in an ASIC, and can be used to optimize the complexity (i.e
> number of bits at each stage, and thus number of logic cells) of an
> implementation.
>  



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