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From: Niklas Holsti <nholsti@icon.fi>
Subject: Re: Disallowing Pre-Defined Operations
Date: 2000/04/15
Date: 2000-04-15T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <38F81183.D8FA89C1@icon.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 38EE267E.12466F1E@quadruscorp.com

Marin D. Condic wrote:
 ...
> When the value
> exceeds the range, the object is saturated to its max/min value. This is
> inherently slow in that you can't just do the math, but have to check
> results and saturate at every step of the way. (Unless the hardware has
> direct support for it. I've not encountered that anywhere, but that
> doesn't mean it doesn't exist.)

The Analog Devices ADSP-21020 digital signal processor can be put in
a "saturation" mode in which the arithmetic operations are saturating
rather than overflowing. I suppose this holds for the newer "SHARC"
series too.

Since the 21020 is a 32-bit, floating-point DSP, this could be a nice
platform for saturation arithmetic in demanding real-time systems.

Niklas Holsti
Working at but not speaking for Space Systems Finland Ltd.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2000-04-15  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-03-10  0:00 Disallowing Pre-Defined Operations Charles H. Sampson
2000-03-09  0:00 ` Keith Thompson
2000-03-09  0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
2000-03-12  0:00   ` Steven Hovater
2000-03-10  0:00 ` mark_biggar
2000-03-10  0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2000-03-11  0:00   ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
2000-03-11  0:00     ` James S. Rogers
2000-03-13  0:00       ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-03-13  0:00     ` dmitry6243
2000-03-13  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-13  0:00       ` Keith Thompson
2000-03-15  0:00         ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-15  0:00     ` Charles H. Sampson
2000-03-15  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-21  0:00         ` Charles H. Sampson
2000-03-21  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-21  0:00           ` Robert A Duff
2000-03-12  0:00   ` claveman
2000-03-12  0:00     ` Robert A Duff
2000-03-13  0:00       ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-03-13  0:00         ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-13  0:00         ` Robert A Duff
2000-03-15  0:00       ` Charles H. Sampson
2000-03-15  0:00         ` Tucker Taft
2000-03-15  0:00           ` Paul Graham
2000-03-16  0:00             ` Charles Hixson
2000-03-17  0:00               ` Paul Graham
2000-03-17  0:00                 ` Charles Hixson
2000-03-18  0:00                   ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-20  0:00                     ` Charles Hixson
2000-03-20  0:00                       ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-16  0:00             ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-16  0:00           ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-03-16  0:00             ` mark_biggar
2000-03-16  0:00             ` Dale Stanbrough
2000-03-16  0:00           ` Bryce Bardin
2000-03-17  0:00         ` Robert A Duff
2000-03-13  0:00     ` Ted Dennison
2000-03-14  0:00 ` Nick Roberts
2000-03-15  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-17  0:00 ` William A Whitaker
2000-03-18  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-22  0:00     ` William A Whitaker
2000-03-23  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-06  0:00         ` Robert I. Eachus
2000-04-05  0:00           ` Marin D. Condic
2000-04-06  0:00             ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-06  0:00               ` Marin D. Condic
2000-04-07  0:00                 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-07  0:00                   ` Marin D. Condic
2000-04-07  0:00                 ` dale
2000-04-07  0:00                   ` Marin D. Condic
2000-04-07  0:00                     ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-04-07  0:00                       ` Marin D. Condic
2000-04-07  0:00                         ` tmoran
2000-04-07  0:00                           ` Marin D. Condic
2000-04-08  0:00                             ` Vladimir Olensky
2000-04-08  0:00                             ` Vladimir Olensky
2000-04-08  0:00                         ` Dale Stanbrough
2000-04-10  0:00                         ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-04-15  0:00                         ` Niklas Holsti [this message]
2000-04-15  0:00                           ` Marin D. Condic
2000-04-09  0:00               ` Robert I. Eachus
2000-03-18  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-18  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
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