[music-dsp] fixed point? floating point? MAC?

Bram de Jong bram at smartelectronix.com
Fri Jan 31 04:40:01 EST 2003


> Am Freitag, 31.01.03, um 12:31 Uhr (Europe/Berlin) schrieb pawL:
> Imagine you want to have a fractional access to an array, i.e. a 
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Fixed point can be used in most instances where floating point is used.
For example, a simple fixed-point multiply would be:

Don't assume you can only do delay-lookups with it!! :-D

Most "DSP chips" work with fixed point representation.
If you look at the motorola website you'll find lot's
of documantation on how to do FFT's IIR's FIR's, ... in
fixed point.


 - bram



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