Re: [myhdl-list] FW: Floating-point support

[David B. <dav...@ya...>]

That would a good place to start !!!  Lets start to develop your core processor  
 
David Blubaugh
 
 

--- On Thu, 3/17/11, Jan Coombs <jan...@mu...> wrote:


From: Jan Coombs <jan...@mu...>
Subject: Re: [myhdl-list] FW: Floating-point support
To: myh...@li...
Date: Thursday, March 17, 2011, 6:30 AM


On 03/03/11 09:42, Jan Decaluwe wrote:
> As always, if your interest is purely modeling, you can do
> anything you want today with MyHDL.
I am hoping to become comfortable with MyHDL and python, as they 
are appear to be very powerful tools.

> If your interest is conversion or synthesis to an implementation
> in silicon: I have personally no plans nor experience for
> floating-point support.
Because numeric resolution, range, and data rate are design 
parameters to any fixed function engine I can not imagine a use for 
FP. So I believe you have the best useful tool extensions in mind 
when you wrote:

> On a related sidenote, the situation is completely different for
> fixed point. I have little experience with it, but great interest
> in enhancing MyHDL support for this. It seems this could be a
> "killing feature", as Verilog doesn't have it and I think the VHDL
> approach can be improved. I have been following Chris Felton's
> work with great interest. As it happens, I am now doing a project
> involving fixed point and after that I hope to have time
> to work on it in MyHDL.

The project that I would like to get out into the wild is a very 
scalable processor core.  The perceived overlap in interest between 
this and David Blubaugh is that my core would use an unbounded 
integer as it's standard data type, and there is a small further 
step to supporting an unbounded float.

Jan Coombs


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