In the late 1930s, Claude Shannon showed that by using switches that close for "true" and open for "false," it was possible to carry out logical operations by assigning the number 1 to "true" and 0 ...

Title says it all (almost). I have an (arbitrary length) binary value, and I need to find the position of the most significant bit which is a '1'. I've thought up a couple algorithms already, but I'm ...

Binary and hexadecimal numbers systems underpin the way modern computer systems work. Low-level interactions with hexadecimal (hex) and binary are uncommon in the world of Java programming, but ...

[Editor's note: For an intro to floating-point math, see Tutorial: Floating-point arithmetic on FPGAs. For a comparison of fixed- and floating-point hardware, see Fixed vs. floating point: a ...

Editor's Note: See also the Follow-on Article that describes how to generate Gray Codes for non-power-of-2 sequences. Note that the correct grammar and spelling for Gray codes is “Gray” (not “gray”, ...