> Significands are fixed point, and fixed point adders, multipliers, and dividers on these are needed for arithmetic operations... Hardware multipliers and dividers are usually much more resource-intensive
It's been a number of years since I've implemented low-level arithmetic, but when you use fixed point, don't you usually choose a power of 2? I don't see why you'd need multiplication/division instead of bit shifters.
It's been a number of years since I've implemented low-level arithmetic, but when you use fixed point, don't you usually choose a power of 2? I don't see why you'd need multiplication/division instead of bit shifters.