FPGA Architectures for Floating Point Applications
(P. H. W. Leong)

To date, most FPGA-based applications have used fixed point arithmetic as floating point is expensive to implement on an FPGA. In this project we propose to develop FPGAs that are specifically optimised for floating point applications in signal processing, embedded systems and high performance computing. These will have speed and power advantages over existing FPGAs and microprocessors for floating point intensive computations. The project involves architectural considerations for such devices, CAD tools and VLSI design.