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

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

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Jan Coombs <
jan...@mu...> wrote:

> 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?
>
>
>
I agree, development of MyHDL convertible FP modules and interconnect would
be useful to many developers.

.chris