A system capable of scaling and summation of two's complement floating-point encoded signals is presented. The method used to assign exponent values to computed quantities is of prime importance; envelope control eliminates zero-crossing non-linearities by using the psychoacoustic property referred to as finite recovery time. Proper selection of radix (gain step) value can reduce arithmetics hardware considerably.

Author: Berkeley, Brian H.
Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
AES Convention: 61 (November 1978) Paper Number: 1431
Publication Date: November 1, 1978 Import into BibTeX
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