Digital mobile systems must function with low power, small size and weight, and low cost. High-performance desktop microprocessors, with built-in floating point hardware, are not suitable in these cases. For embedded systems, it can be advantageous to implement these calculations with fixed point arithmetic instead. We present an automated fixed-point data path synthesis tool FpSynt for designing embedded applications in fixed-point domain with sufficient accuracy for most applications. FpSynt is available under the GNU General Public License from the following GitHub repository: http://github.com/izhbannikov/FPSYNT
@article{arxiv.1307.8401,
title = {FpSynt: a fixed-point datapath synthesis tool for embedded systems},
author = {Ilya Y. Zhbannikov and Gregory W. Donohoe},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.8401},
year = {2013}
}