UPDATE (2020-01-11): A more detailed specification can be found here: LeanFloat (GitHub). I’ve been developing software for over 30 years, and during those years I have frequently come across problems relating to a few features of the IEEE 754 floating point standard, namely: Denormalized numbers Configurable rounding modes Recently I have also developed a custom …
Category: Hardware Development
Some features of the MRISC32 ISA
In my previous post, The MRISC32 – A vector first CPU design, I went through some of the principles of the MRISC32 ISA. In this post I’d like to focus on scalar operations and present some of the features that set the ISA apart from others. I have recently made some progress with a GCC …
The MRISC32 – A vector first CPU design
Edit: There is now an MRISC32 homepage. For some time now I have been working on my first CPU design as a hobby project. It started with a desire to learn more about CPU architecture design, and in particular instruction set architecture (ISA) design. To be clear, I’m not a hardware or CPU designer by …
Installing Intel/Altera Quartus Prime in Ubuntu 17.10
UPDATE: The new Intel® Quartus® Prime Lite 18.1 installs without any problems under Ubuntu 18.04 (LTS). Hopefully this article is now superfluous (unless you need to install older version of Quartus onto older versions of Ubuntu). Installing the Intel® Quartus® Prime Lite edition software (the free Intel/Altera FPGA design software suite) for Ubuntu 17.10 is …