Tim Wescott Blog on FPGARelated.com https://www.fpgarelated.com/blogs-1/nf/Tim_Wescott.php Tim Wescott Blog on FPGARelated.com https://www.fpgarelated.com/blogs-1/nf/Tim_Wescott.php https://d23s79tivgl8me.cloudfront.net/user/profilepictures/28547.jpg en-US Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:18:21 +0000 1776367101 Data Types for Control & DSP https://www.fpgarelated.com/showarticle/944/data-types-for-control-dsp There's a lot of information out there on what data types to use for digital signal processing, but there's also a lot of confusion, so the topic bears repeating.

I recently posted an entry on PID control. In that article I glossed over the data types used by showing "double" in all of my example code.  Numerically, this should work for most control problems, but it can be an extravagant...]]> Wed, 27 Apr 2016 00:41:49 +0000 Tim Wescott