Re: [f-cpu] Re: Floating-Point?

[philippe.trbich@free.fr]

On Thu, 16 Aug 2001 17:16:47 +0200
Yann Guidon <whygee@f-cpu.org> wrote:

> hi,
> 
> nicO wrote:
> > Michael Riepe a écrit :
> > > If you have enough room.  Do you have an idea how big the FP unit will be?
> > It's big but not as a 256 Ko SRAM cache. So it will be the choice of the
> > user. Duplicate big unit could save a lot of computing power (because
> > you make a single run).
> 
> After all, the files are under GPL so they can be modified if needed.
> 
> > For your 16 bit fp processing, could not be better to use log number ?
> > For audio processing it could be enough (no DC stuff).
> 
> i'd rather use 32-b ints or 32-b FP instead of 16-b FP.
> unless you really don't care about the huge rounding noise that you will
> create. 16-b and 32-b LNS could be used too, but i know that some people
> are not very happy with it.
> 
> > For the following text, it could be nice to update quickly the manual.
> > If whygee is ok.
> 
> the "little" problem is that Olivier Jean has not submitted his work.
> 
> i'm ok for modifying the manual, of course, but it is a very heavy
> and long work and if Olivier comes with a "forked" revision,
> the branch merge will be another nightmare.
> 
> - i hope that olivier will send some news about what he has done,
>   is doing and will do.
> - we can prepare "patches" that will be applied to the manual in either
>   new or old version. these would be "manual patches" in case a new
>   manual revision comes.
If I remember well, the manual is on CVS and can be used to be updated. I think that's the best way (time saver) to work!
Before put it on CVS, it'll be great to propose updates to the list.
Pas lui, l'autre.
>   
> 
> > nicO
> WHYGEE
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