Re: Rep:Re: [f-cpu] I forgot to tell you...

[Michael Riepe <michael@stud.uni-hannover.de>]

On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 08:25:45AM +0000, Nicolas Boulay wrote:
[...]
> - support of 4 tools (vanilla and Simili like before,
>   ncsim and Riviera now, and very easy addition of new tools)
> - i started popcount and mostly finished the register set.

Ah... I wundered why they were marked green in the latest picture.

> - still "in the pipeline" : finish popcount (btw Michael's help
>   is welcome because i don't know how to you his generic adders),
>   rewrite (mostly) INC, and start BIST.

What do you want to add? How big are the operands?

> - changes : ncsim and Riviera did not like the random package.
>   now it is changed and the functions are renamed. It currently
>   compiles without modification with all tools
> - the f-cpu/install.sh script is better populated and executes
>   in 1 minute with all 4 tools at once. 8 subdirectories are
>   compiled and tested (configuration, common, registers, rop2,
>   imu, asu, imul and clock). INC and popcount are next in the
>   list. I do not run the ASU and IMU exhaustive tests, as they
>   are excessively slow ...
> 
> i'll upload a new snapshot soon.
> 
> Btw, for those who still want a C emulator : i care even less,
> now that i have found that ncsim runs 60 times faster than simili*
> 
> >>> Ouch ! 60 x ! 2 or 3 could be acceptable but not 60 x ...
> nicO
> 
> and 120x faster than vanilla. Riviera is almost (some %) as fast
> as ncsim. So the "easy" solution is to get a free Riviera license :-)

Did they offer us a full license, or only the 20-day trial license on
the web?

-- 
 Michael "Tired" Riepe <Michael.Riepe@stud.uni-hannover.de>
 "All I wanna do is have a little fun before I die"
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