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

[Jan D. <ja...@ja...>]

Blubaugh, David A. wrote:
> Would anyone know as to how to develop floating point support for the 
> MyHDL module?  Has anyone worked with any alternative versions of the 
> IEEE standard for floating -point?  Also, has anyone developed a 
> floating-point library for a module within the python environment in 
> order to execute numerical computations.  I would imagine since I am 
> translating python to verilog by using MyHDL , that I will have to 
> develop the floating-point support module in python source code as well ??
> 
> I believe this is what will be required in order to develop 
> floating-point capable algorithms within Verilog.  If I can develop this 
> one feature from MyHDL, it would allow this module to be fairly 
> competitive with commercial products. 

I am no expert in floating point. What is it exactly that the
commercial products you refer to do?

Jan

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