https://pranav083.github.io/tags/floating-point/Recent content in Floating Point on Pranav KumarHugo -- gohugo.ioenCopyright © 2016–2030, Pranav KumarMon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0400https://pranav083.github.io/post/project/fp-arithmetic-ppa/Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0400https://pranav083.github.io/post/project/fp-arithmetic-ppa/ <p><strong>ECE 4515 — Digital Design II · Virginia Tech · Spring 2026</strong></p> <p>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.</p> <hr> <h2 id="the-question">The question</h2> <p>Deeper pipelines let a datapath run at a higher clock, but each additional stage costs registers, and wider or faster arithmetic units cost logic and DSP blocks. On a fixed device, that budget is finite.</p>