[libre-riscv-dev] IEEE754 FPU turning into ALU with Reservation Stations

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 3:58 PM Aleksandar Kostovic <
alexandar.kostovic at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey everyone, i am finally back and ready to do this. So Luke, can you give
> me a super fast TL;DL of things that are done(i tried my best to stay up to
> date, but a quick overview would be very much appreciated!) and how could i
> help?
>

 hi, welcome back, ok i have a video i just uploaded which i've not put a
description on or anything yet https://youtu.be/iAemcWPgM0Y it's a
walkthrough of the InputGroup class and the ExamplePipeline class, feel
free to ignore it entirely or skim it :)

 the next infrastructure stage is to convert InputGroup to conform to the
Buffered Pipeline stb/busy signal scheme, on both the input _and_ output
sides.  as InputGroup takes an *array* of stb bits, it's not quite as
immediately obvious as it seems.

what you could do, aleksander, is start adapting the multiply stages to
conform to the patterns i created in the add.py code.  i'd suggest starting
with the multiply_0 stage, taking a copy of the FPAddStage0Mod and
FPAddStage0 classes and adapting them.

after that, the next stage to try would be to copy FPAddStage1Mod and adapt
it to create a multiply stage 1 class, however it would *only* have the
"Else" block (inaccurately commented "# tot[27] zero case", it should be
tot[-1] case), and note carefully that the sticky bit is set from the
*bank* of bits from 0..mw instead of just taking the LSB of the mantissa in
the adder code.

most of what's in add.py will need to move to separate files (probably
fpbase.py for now) so that they can be shared between mul and add, i
haven't done that yet as i am still experimenting.

ok must must rest, 00:30 here...

until tomorrow.

l.