[Open-graphics] Other interesting bits of math to do in FPGAs

[Timothy Normand Miller]

On 9/19/07, Farhan Mohamed Ali <farhan at cmu.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, September 19, 2007 9:20 am, Timothy Normand Miller said:
> > We've talked a lot about multipliers recently, and in the past, we've
> > talked about floating point adders, multipliers, and reciprocal.
> >
> Is there any RTL for that stuff? I can't seem to find it on the
> repository. If there is more work needed here i will be more than happy
> to do it, i like this stuff.

There's reciprocal code that was posted to the list a long time ago.
Mostly, there's a table used in the approximation.

> > Depending on what sorts of applications we want to implement besides
> > graphics, we may need a library of things like this.  For instance, we
> > could so automatic speech recognition in hardware, which is typically
> > implemented using HMMs.
> >
> What kind of log function are you thinking about? Just an integer log?

Integer log is too easy.  :)

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Timothy Normand Miller
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