Dense FPGA Compute Using Signed Byte Tuples

The importance of AI to FPGA has resulted in ever increasing low precision hard arithmetic features in newer devices. Many FPGAs, including those from Achronix, Intel, and Xilinx, have significantly increased the density of INT8 and INT9 embedded multipliers. Mainstream devices with these enhanced densities still support the traditional intermediate integer (typically 18-bit) multipliers, with IEE...