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 | VLAU | FPLog (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 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| # 18 k block RAM-488 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 21 |
| # DSP48Es-640 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 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 | 2−17 | 2−17 | 2−52 |
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