A Library of Parameterized Floating-Point Modules and Their Use

  • Authors:
  • Pavle Belanovic;Miriam Leeser

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • FPL '02 Proceedings of the Reconfigurable Computing Is Going Mainstream, 12th International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We present a parameterized floating-point library for use with reconfigurable hardware. Our format is both general and flexible. All IEEE formats are a subset of our format, as are all previously published floating-point formats for reconfigurable hardware. We have developed a library of fully parameterized hardware modules for format control, arithmetic operations and conversion to and from any fixed-point format. The format converters allow for hybrid implementations that combine both fixed and floating-point calculations. This permits the designer to choose between the increased range of floating-point and the increased precision of fixed-point within the same application. We illustrate the use of this library with a hybrid implementation of the K-means clustering algorithm applied to multispectral satellite images.