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15 years ago

Hardware VS Software

I am doing some performance analysis for hardware and software. The program will generate a set of random 32 bits number. these numbers will be send to a user peripheral (hardware) for addition. then...
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15 years ago

Adding is hardly an issue in software when you're within 32 bits. But when you look at larger bit type (like > 64) or fixed point you would start to see a difference. Then multiply that up by large data sets (eg. video or mega pixel images) you would really notice the difference in throughput.