[Open-graphics] Here
you go: Fully-pipelinedfloating pointdividerin Verilog
Timothy Miller
miller at techsource.com
Tue Dec 14 13:12:26 EST 2004
Timothy Miller wrote:
>
> If we use a dedicated RAM block, that's 10 address bits and 18 data
> bits. Adding in the extra math (a couple of adders) so that we can get
> that one extra bit of precision is probably not worth it, given the
> extra logic area plus the extra pipelining.
>
> So what we get out are 16 bits of mantissa, one bit to indicate how to
> manipulate the exponent (only entry 0 will have it set), and the last
> bit might be useful as a sort of "hint" for bias if we want to try to
> limit the lost precision of the input in some way. Dunno.
Oops... sorry. That was redundant. :)
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