Short course in Floating-point Arithmetic

Professors W. Kahan and R. Fateman from UC Berkeley and Professor
I. Koren from UMass will offer a three-day short course entitled:


  GENERAL-PURPOSE FLOATING-POINT SYSTEMS - HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE ISSUES


Course dates: Thur. August 13 - Sat. August 15, 1998, in Berkeley,
California.
Course web page: http://www.aime.com/fp98/


This short course will cover:
* The IEEE Floating-point standard
* Floating-point units - design principles (operations to be implemented
    in hardware, common algorithms for their implementations, pipelining,
    rounding, coping with special cases like gradual underflow)
* Floating-point exceptions - why they should not be handled by the
    OS, how to live with imprecise interrupts, linguistic inconveniences
* Instruction sets - the three predominant designs, historical
    blunders, comparisons
* Language and compilers - the issue of access to full floating-point
    facilities the software level, language standards, semantics, and
    portability
* Libraries of elementary functions
* Testing and validating floating-point hardware and libraries


Details about the course, registration form, some attendees' comments
on the previous 2-day courses (offered in January 1996 and June 1997),
and other items can be found in the course web page at:


            http://www.aime.com/fp98/


Israel Koren
Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003
Tel: (413)545-2643
FAX: (413)545-1993
e-mail: koren@euler.ecs.umass.edu
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