[libre-riscv-dev] daily kan-ban update 22jun2020

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Monday, June 22, 2020, Cesar Strauss <cestrauss at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ongoing:
>
> * Work on the parallel unit test concept in
> src/soc/experiment/test/test_compalu_multi.py.


cool.


> * Work on the unit tests for LDSTCompUnit in
> src/soc/experiment/compldst_multi.py


you saw i added bytereversal there? unfortunately, weirdly, the
compldst_multi unit test fails on byterev=false but l0_cache.py test works
fine.

very odd.


>
> Recently:
>
> * Became temporarily obsessed with pipelines in general, and with the
> Pipeline API in particular.


very funny :)


>
> Added some resources to the wiki:


ah fantastic.


> * Lecture notes - Floating Point Appreciation
>
> http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~markhill/cs354/Fall2008/notes/flpt.apprec.html
>
> Among other things, has a nice explanation on arithmetic, rounding modes
> and the sticky bit.


yes we need to sort that out and add exceptions.

you should see the logic for FMA rounding, it is mental.

l.



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