Floating-Point Arithmetic: Performance vs. Area on an FPGA
Apr 20, 2026 · 3 min read · FPGA SystemVerilog Floating Point Pipelining Design Space Exploration Cyclone V Quartus Hardware Design ·ECE 4515 — Digital Design II · Virginia Tech · Spring 2026 A hardware design-space exploration: build the same floating-point datapath at different pipeline depths, synthesise each on a Cyclone V, and measure what the extra performance actually costs in silicon. The question Deeper pipelines let a datapath run at a …
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Dec 15, 2024 · 3 min read · RISC-V Chipyard BOOM Rocket Chip Memory Hierarchy Branch Prediction Performance Analysis ·ECE 5504 — Computer Architecture · Virginia Tech · Fall 2024 Team project with Alok Mehendale and Benjamin Rice. Benchmarks were divided between us: Alok took rsort and vvadd, Benjamin took towers and median, and I took FFT and SHA-256. Results were combined for the final report. Problem General-purpose processor …
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