The use of fixed versus floating point arithmetic in signal processing for professional audio applications has been debated over many years and certainly pre-dates today's luxury of being able to select a suitable Digital Signal Processing (DSP) chip off the shelf. However the correct choice of number format must still be made, based on performance, and cost trade-offs, even though today's available h/w ensures that the implementation is a great deal easier than in the past.

Authors: Lidbetter, Paul S.; Spreadbury, David
Affiliation: Neve International, Litlington, Royston, UK
AES Conference: UK 7th Conference: Digital Signal Processing (DSP) (September 1992)
Paper Number: DSP-03
Publication Date: September 1, 1992 Import into BibTeX
Subject: Digital Signal Processing
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