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van Dam, Laurens (author), Peltenburg, J.W. (author), Al-Ars, Z. (author), Hofstee, H.P. (author)The newly proposed posit number format uses a significantly different approach to represent floating point numbers. This paper introduces a framework for posit arithmetic in reconfigurable logic that maintains full precision in intermediate results. We present the design and implementation of a L1 BLAS arithmetic accelerator on posit vectors...conference paper 2019