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Name: Fixed-Point Number Representation
ID: m11930
Language: English (en)
Summary: Specialized DSP hardware typically uses fixed-point number representations for lower cost and complexity and greater speed. Interpretation of two's-complement binary numbers as signed fractions between -1 and 1 allows integer arithmetic to be used for DSP computations, but introduces quantization and overflow errors.
Subject: Science and Technology
Keywords: fixed point, fractional number representation, overflow, quantization, roundoff error, truncation, two's complement
Document Type: -//CNX//DTD CNXML 0.5 plus MathML//EN
License: Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 1.0
Authors: Douglas L. Jones (dl-jones@uiuc.edu)
Copyright Holders: Douglas L. Jones (dl-jones@uiuc.edu)
Maintainers: Douglas L. Jones (dl-jones@uiuc.edu), Kyle Clarkson (kclarks@gmail.com)
Latest version: 1.2 (history)
First publication date: Jul 15, 2003 5:00 pm GMT-5
Last revision to module: Dec 28, 2004 9:48 am US/Central
Module XML: m11930_1.2.cnxml

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Version: 1.2 Dec 28, 2004 9:48 am US/Central by Douglas L. Jones
Changes: 
Edited text.
Added section headers.
Version: 1.1 May 11, 2004 2:40 pm GMT-5 by Kyle Clarkson
Changes: 
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