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

[Christopher L. F. <cf...@uc...>]

Impulse-C is based off the open-source Streams-C compiler.

You can get more information on the implementation from here (http://www.streams-c.lanl.gov/ 
).

On Mar 20, 2008, at 4:12 PM, Blubaugh, David A. wrote:

> Thank you very much for your response.
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> The commercial packages that I am referring to is the ImpulseC  
> complier.
> This compiler can extract c source code, which has been written with
> floats and doubles.  Where upon it then converts most of the C- source
> code, including the float and double mathematical processing, and
> converts it directly into VHDL or verilog.  This is done for high
> precision and numerical applications research, like the Fast Fourier
> Transform.
>
>
> I was wondering that floating-point algorithms, like the FFT,  could  
> be
> eventually supported by MyHDL, with a direct conversion of
> floating-point python to VHDL or verilog?  I believe one way to handle
> this would be to develop a module which handles the floating-point
> procedure for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division,  
> which
> has been defined by IEEE and then import this module to handle the
> computational tasks within MyHDL.  Is that possible?   I definitely  
> hope
> so!!!!
>
>
> Also, is there a method to automatically generate pipeline  
> architectures
> with MyHDL?   Thanks for all of the help and answers!!!!
>
>
> David Blubaugh
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Decaluwe
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> Subject: Re: [myhdl-list] FW: Floating-point support
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> 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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