Herramienta de enseñanza de aritmética de computadores de nueva generación. Caso de estudio de posit

2023

The IEEE Standard for Binary Floating-Point Arithmetic (IEEE 754) has been the standard for computer arithmetic since 1985 and is used in computers worldwide. In 2017 John L. Gustafson presented a new format, posit, with the objective of replacing the floating point, claiming that it offers greater precision or similar precision with fewer bits. Since then many have joined in supporting the format as either a direct alternative to floating point or as a format that can coexist with it. However the learning resources available for learning this new format are few and disperse which makes it so that a new user of the format has to look through many documents, some of them being very technical, in order to gather information about posits. In this Bachelor Thesis an e-learning application was created in order to make learning posit easier. After thoroughly investigating how the format functions and the learning resources available both for posits and floating point a desktop application was developed for Windows that allows the user to learn about the structure of the format and its basic operations. Lastly a evaluation of the features of the application was made in comparison with the rest of the available tools.

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