floating point alu using vhdl
DESCRIPTION
a floating point arithmetic unit implemented on a FPGA board using VHDLTRANSCRIPT
Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering
A Seminar on
“Floating point arithmetic unit
Implemented on FPGA using
VHDL”
Guided by
Prof. H. M. Raza
Brief outline:
IEEE 754 formatFloating point unitVHDLFPGAEDA Tools and softwaresDesign of arithmetic unitsConclusion
Introduction to Floating Point IEEE 754Standard
Established in 1985 by IEEE
It has mainly two format• Single Precision (32-bit)• Double Precision(64-bit)
IEEE 754 single precision format
1.M*
Mantissa (M)Mantissa (M)
Conversion Examples
Consider 9.5 is to be converted in standard IEEE754 format.
9.5 can be represented in binary as 1001.10
After normalization 1.00110*
Biasing is to be done to exponent 1.00110*
Similarly -12.076 can be represented as:
9.5 = 0 10000010 00110000000000000000000
-12.076 = 1 10000010 10000010011011101110101
Conversion of IEEE754 to decimal
1 1011 0110 01100000000000000000000
= −49539595901075456.0= −4.9539595901075456 ×
What is ALU?
It is Arithmetic and logical unit
In simple words any unit which performs the
required mathematical computations
Limitations of basic ALU
It operates only on Integer values, hence less
precision.
When forced to be operated on floating
point numbers then it results in slow
operations and lags in accuracy
Floating point arithmetic unit
FPAU is a arithmetic unit which is capable to
compute the floating point numbers (real
numbers)
Floating-point operations are often pipelined,
which increases the speed of operation.
What is FPGA?
• It is a semiconductor device that can be
programmed after manufacturing.
• The FPGA-architecture consists of many logic
modules, which are placed in an array-
structure
FPGA architecture
Significant characteristics for the FPGA-architecture
Array of logic-modulesDifferent logic-modules possibleRouting-channels physically exits between
logic-modulesEvery logic-module can be interconnected to
any other logic-modul or I/O-module
Overview of VHDL
VHDL stands for Very High Speed Integrated
Circuit Hardware Description Language
VHDL is widely used to model digital systems
VHDL was originated in early 1980’s and was
standardized in 1987 by the IEEE
VHDL features
Structural Specification
Support for Design Hierarchy
Library Support
Support for Concurrent and Sequential Statements
Type Declaration
Use of subprograms
Design flow
The design file is written in VHDL language with the
extension .vhd and often named as its ENTITY’s name.
The major steps in design flow are:
Compilation
Optimization
Place-and-route
VHDL Constructs
Entity definition
Architecture definition
Configuration
Process
Subprogram
Package
A VHDL design can be broken into multiple files. Each file contains entity and
architecture definitions, or packages.
VHDL Code Structure
Entity Declaration Defines input/output ports
Architecture DeclarationDefines what the component does Variables, Signals, Constants defines
Component MappingInterconnects previously defined
components/entities.
Different modeling schemes in VHDL
Behavioral
defines outputs as function of input
Algorithms but no implementation
Structural
Implements behavior by connecting
components with known behavior
Example
entity andgate is
Port ( a : in STD_LOGIC;
b : in STD_LOGIC;
c : out STD_LOGIC);
end andgate;
architecture Behavioral of andgate is
Begin
c <= a AND b;
end Behavioral;
EDA tools and softwares used
Xilinx ISE design suit 14.7
This software is used to synthesize and simulate the VHDL code
developed.
Target device: Atlys Spartan-6 Academic Development Kit
Spartan-6 XC6SLX45 FPGA
6,822 Spartan-6 logic slices , 43,661 Spartan-6 logic cells
Integrated Memory Controller Block (MCB)
2,088 Kbits of block RAM
Design and implementation of FPAU
In top-down design approach FPAU is designed
for four arithmetic modules, addition,
subtraction, multiplication and division.
Selection of any of the above functions in done
with the operation code (Op)
Block diagram of FPAU
Input output information
A,B : input operandsOp : input operation codeClk : input clockR : Output Result
Function of Operation Code(Op)
Op(1) Op(0) Operation
0 0 Addition
0 1 Subtraction
1 0 Multiplication
1 1 Division
Algorithm for addition/subtraction
Step 1: Take difference of two exponents. Take the larger exponent as the tentative exponent of the result. Step 2: Shift the Mantissa of the number with the smaller exponent, right through a number of bit positions that is equal to the difference of exponents. Step 3: Add/subtract the two Mantissas as per sign bits and instruction and take the result of two as the tentative mantissa of result.
Step 4: Normalization of exponent and mantissa
Algorithm for Multiplication
Step 1: Add two exponents. Take the result tentative exponent of the result. Step 2: Multiply two mantissas
Step 3: Normalization
Step 4: set the sign bit
Block diagram of multiplier/divider
RESULTS
Inferred 1 Multiplier(s). Inferred 31 Adder/Subtractor(s).
Inferred 256 D-type flip-flop(s).
Inferred 2 Comparator(s).Inferred 141 Multiplexer(s).
Timing Summary
Minimum period: 7.936ns (Maximum Frequency: 126.004MHz)
Synthesis summary
Simulation results while performing addition
Simulation results while performing multiplication
Conclusion
Synthesis of the Floating Point Unit targeted
for the FPGA device had been done using Xilinx-ISE
design suit 14.7. Synthesis result revels approximate
05% resource utilization i.e. 404 slices (202 CLB’s).
Correspondingly the logic verification of FPU is done
using ModelSim DE edition.