High Point by Design has created "Design Forward," a program that connects the dots between designed spaces and cognitive function. Attendees will learn how to create environments that accommodate ...

Designers at all levels of experience could probably list hundreds of opinions about what makes design successful. After two decades of designing and leading numerous design teams I have quite a few ...

The MathWorks announced the availability of the new Fixed-Point Toolbox and Simulink Fixed Point, bringing fixed-point design capabilities to MATLAB and enhanced fixed-point simulation in Simulink.

There is a natural preference to use floating-point implementations in custom embedded applications because they offer a much higher dynamic range and as a byproduct bypass the design hassle of ...

It was Doug Watt’s first day on the job at New England Communications, circa 1997. He was assigned to work with Dan Hodgkin, an industry veteran who had been doing this work for years. Doug’s job was ...

Ultrawideband (UWB) wireless technology is poised to replace high-speed data cables in homes and offices. 1 UWB technology will be capable of transmitting hundreds of megabits per second over ...

Although fixed-point arithmetic logic (which is usually implemented as just integer arithmetic, perhaps with some saturation and/or rounding logic added) is generally faster and more area efficient, ...

Optical design has been a topic of considerable importance in advancing how humans explore the unknown world. In the past, optical design was tedious ‘manual’ work. Now, with the rapid development in ...

As defined by the IEEE 754 standard, floating-point values are represented in three fields: a significand or mantissa, a sign bit for the significand and an exponent field. The exponent is a biased ...

ROGERS -- State highway officials Wednesday opened the bids for work on a new interchange at Interstate 49 and U.S. 71B between Rogers and Bentonville. The interchange's design will be the first of ...