Research Article

A Vector-Like Reconfigurable Floating-Point Unit for the Logarithm

Table 5

Resources, performance, and accuracy of LAUs, VLAUs, and FPLogs.

Resources total SP DP
LAU VLAU FPLog (red.)FPLog (full) LAU VLAUFPLog (red.)FPLog (full)

Slice registers 58,800 932 1,864 782 992 970 1,912 809 2,568

Slice LUTs-58,800 551 1,099 712 873 634 1,107 735 1,910

Occupied slices-14,720 298 569 294 330 341 576 307 711

# 36 k block RAM-244 3 3 1 23 3 1 2

# 18 k block RAM-488 1 1 1 21 1 1 21

# DSP48Es-640 3 6 3 53 6 3 14

Frequency (MHz) 370 351 233 240 334 330 233 198

Latency 22 22 18 20 22 22 18 34

Results/cycle 1 2 1 1 1 2 1 1

Error 2−17 2−17 2−17 2−23 2−17 2−172−172−52