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

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

My God yes, 
 
the development of FP modules would be extremely important to develop.  That would not only be defined for just FP modules.  Other modules would be extremely important to develop.  Also, I am looking at that many have developed python programs for Lie Group calculations.  I have a pretty good reason to hope for the development of MYHDL synthesizable modules for these as well.  Would You all like to know more ?? 
 
David Blubaugh
 
 


--- On Wed, 3/9/11, Jan Coombs <jan...@mu...> wrote:


From: Jan Coombs <jan...@mu...>
Subject: Re: FW: Floating-point support
To: "General discussions on MyHDL" <myh...@li...>
Cc: "David Blubaugh" <dav...@ya...>
Date: Wednesday, March 9, 2011, 12:31 PM


On 06/03/11 21:28, David Blubaugh wrote:

> What you are thinking regarding my words are exactly as to what I was thinking.  How would you like to proceed??

Openly, unless there is clearly more chance of success/profit by working privately.

Your original requirements looked easy to me. This is likely because I've not specified them fully, and partly because number representation has interested me for some time.

When building a synthesizable fixed function maths engine, I would want to be able to select basic computation modules, and then wire them together. The width of the interconnect could be selected independently, and could be varied to balance resources used with required data rate.

Do you think that a library of FP functions and interconnect modules written in synthesizable MyHDL would be generally useful, and worth the effort to develop?

Jan Coombs.
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