Re: [vhdl-200x] [Fwd: VHDL vector/matrix package?]

To: Ernst Christen <christen.1858@verizon.net>
From: David Bishop <dbishop@eda.org>
Sent by: owner-vhdl-200x@eda.org
Date: 04/23/2010 04:01PM
cc: "vhdl-200x@eda.org" <vhdl-200x@eda.org>
Subject: Re: [vhdl-200x] [Fwd: VHDL vector/matrix package?]

Ernst Christen wrote:
> On 22 Apr 2010 Jonas Nilsson <Jonas.Nilsson@synopsys.com> wrote:
> >
> > I was thinking of a matrix package more in line with the
> MATH_COMPLEX/MATH_REAL
> > packages, that provides the functions but not the implementation. An
> RTL tool that
> > recognizes the operations and the following pipeline could make
> exactly the same
> > implementation as the "synthesis specific version", but the operators
> would be
> > useful in non-RTL code as well.
> >
> This is indeed what we were considering in 1076.1. The package would
> define the mathematical aspects of the operations, but no implementation.
>  
> One thing we will consider is to define the vector/matrix package with
> a generic list that allows it to be instantiated for different types,
> for example the abstract data type real or a floating point type
> reflecting an implementation based on the float_generic_pkg. An
> instantiation using float_generic_pkg would then define an
> implementation for the data, but everything else would be left to the
> "synthesis specific version".
>  
Why don't we start off with a "real_matrix" package, work out how we
want the algorithm to work there, then start playing with
unsigned/signed/ufixed/sfixed/float?

I already have a matrix multiply partially coded up.   We actually
thought about doing matrix math long ago, but never actually did much
with it.   Turns out that MTI takes the syntax fairly well.



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