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Article: 2100
Subject: Re: * WARNING * $1,000,000 in 90 Days!
From: garyk@svpal.svpal.org (George Noten)
Date: 14 Oct 1995 21:21:10 GMT
Links: << >>  << T >>  << A >>
Matthew Carlson (carlson@rahul.net) wrote:
: GDR Enterprises (102771.3337@CompuServe.COM) wrote:
: :                       $$$ Change Your Life $$$


: I just got to flame this bastard. What does this have to do with 
: mathematics? Nothing you ass..... !!!!!!!!! I cannot stand this kind of 
: garbage. Get a life. 
: 102771.3337@compuserve.com 
: Hey! Compuserve charges like 10 cents for every internet email you 
: recieve. Lets send him hate mail. Unfortunately his box only hold 100 
: letters but, that is still 10 dolars. If this guy has made 10,000 he can 
: afford it. 
: -- 
: Matthew Carlson <carlson@rahul.net>

I already sent him his own message.  Whenever I see this garbage I just
send it back (kind of reflex - I can't help it).



Article: 2101
Subject: Re: Needed: Suggestions for FPGA design CAD
From: garyk@svpal.svpal.org (George Noten)
Date: 14 Oct 1995 21:39:26 GMT
Links: << >>  << T >>  << A >>
Sudhir Wokhlu (sudhir@utdallas.edu) wrote:
: My department needs to buy PC-based FPGA Design entry and Simulation 
: software for Actel FPGA's. As it is not possible to evaluate all the 
: major tools on the market an input from designers out in the industry 
: using FPGA's will be greatly helpful. 

: I would appreacite if designers could give their opinions on VIEWLOGIC/
: ORCAD/INTERGRAPH based on their experience with these tools.

: We are a small research staff at a University and do not get to change 
: tools often for want of money (we are lucky if that happens once every 
: 10 years!!!). It is imperative that we make the best choice now. In view 
: of this, opinions of experienced designers will be very valuable.

: Thanks in advance,

: Sudhir 

Here is my own opinion based on my own experience:

			ORCAD 
The best schematic entry tool - simple, fast, convenient, cheap.  The
problem is that all the rest of it is not so good : simulation, HDL ( not
sure it is already released ), synthesis , FPGA support ( if you need only 
Actel it is no problem but if you try to switch to another FPGA, say 
ORCA or ATMEL you will have to buy another tool).



			ViewLogic

PRO: one of the few EDA systems providing all in one package ( schematic, 
VHDL for both simulation and synthesis, simulation tools etc.).  Supports
nearly every FPGA known to humanity.

CONTRA: idiotic schematic editor (bad user interface which did not improve
with Windows release); low software quality ( a lot of bugs and they are 
not that fast to fix them); very expensive ( PROexpert package for FPGA
design costs about $15k).



I don't know a lot about Synario ( DATA I/O) but you may want to take
a look at this one .  It is something closer to ViewLogic than to
OrCad ( and probably with the same problems).



Article: 2102
Subject: Re: REPOST: Design Contest Write-up ( was "Jury Verdict + Test Benches" )
From: Jan Decaluwe <jand>
Date: 14 Oct 1995 23:53:59 GMT
Links: << >>  << T >>  << A >>
>
>OK, Jan, since I've been accused of the most unforgivable crime of "Deceptive
>Anologies", before the authorities come to take me away to serve hard time,
>I'd like to ask: "Are you saying that the VHDL contestants were at a
>disadvantage *because* they were brutally forced to use std_logic in
>designing a simple 9-bit up/down counter instead of using 'integer'
>and 'boolean' data types?"
>
Yes, in VHDL it is an important disadvantage if you don't get the freedom
to make your own type choices. In contrast to Verilog it happens to be a
strongly typed language. Consequently, choosing the "right" type has
a big impact on code clarity and coding time. 

Regards, Jan

===================================================================
Jan Decaluwe              ===              Easics               ===
Design Manager            ===  VHDL-based ASIC design services  ===
E-mail: jand@easics.be       ===================================
NEW! Tel: +32-16-298 400
NEW! Fax: +32-16-298 319    Kapeldreef 60, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUM



Article: 2103
Subject: Re: REPOST: Design Contest Write-up ( was "Jury Verdict + Test Benches" )
From: Jan Decaluwe <jand>
Date: 15 Oct 1995 00:29:33 GMT
Links: << >>  << T >>  << A >>
ekatjr@eua.ericsson.se (Robert Tjarnstrom) wrote:

>Currently microprocessors perform about 5 times better than ASIC design, although
>using comparable manufacturing technology. What is the poor process utilization 
>due to?
>
Maybe it's because increasing the clock frequency of a uP is one of only
methods 
left to speed up the Von Neumann bottleneck (before more radical architectural
changes, such as computing with programmable logic, become unavoidable), making
it worthwhile to throw development money and power dissipation at it? Maybe uP
designers have been unexpectedly succesful to do this, perhaps because they are
increasingly applying ASIC design techniques such as timing-driven logic
synthesis?

>Will a move to "higher abstraction levels" increase or decrease the gap?
The only significant influence should be on design time (otherwise such
a move is not acceptable).

Regards, Jan

===================================================================
Jan Decaluwe              ===              Easics               ===
Design Manager            ===  VHDL-based ASIC design services  ===
E-mail: jand@easics.be       ===================================
NEW! Tel: +32-16-298 400
NEW! Fax: +32-16-298 319    Kapeldreef 60, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUM



Article: 2104
Subject: Re: Problems With Xilinx Software under Solaris 2.4
From: "David M. Zar" <dzar>
Date: 15 Oct 1995 21:09:45 GMT
Links: << >>  << T >>  << A >>
I have used the Xilinx kits with SPARCstation 5s and SOlaris 2.3 with
success.  I have used the kit (not the XCHECKER cable, yet) under
2.4.  I'm somewhat surprised you got the license manager to work :-)
that was our problem for a long time until we revealed that we need the license
server's name in /etc/hosts even if NIS+ is running... This is a NIS+ problem,
it turns out, and many people I know are not using it.

Anyway, I do not recall any strange things that we had to do to make the
cables work with Solaris.  I think the only think we might have done is
explicitly specify the port on the command line of xchecker (and maybe the port
speed, also).  You might want to check that.

Hope this helps...

Dave



Article: 2105
Subject: vertical 20 pin LCC sockets?
From: rfarmer@mindspring.com (Rick Farmer)
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 1995 21:39:32 -0400
Links: << >>  << T >>  << A >>
Anyone seen a 90 degree 20 pin LCC socket? Not exactly fpga, but given the 
funky sockets/adapters used on things like the MACH445 (hint DIGIKEY- ARIES) 
one of you guys must have seen such a beast somewhere. 


Article: 2106
Subject: Re: Needed: Suggestions for FPGA design CAD
From: kirani@cinenet.net (kayvon irani)
Date: 16 Oct 1995 06:57:38 GMT
Links: << >>  << T >>  << A >>
Sudhir Wokhlu (sudhir@utdallas.edu) wrote:
: My department needs to buy PC-based FPGA Design entry and Simulation 
: software for Actel FPGA's. As it is not possible to evaluate all the 
: major tools on the market an input from designers out in the industry 
: using FPGA's will be greatly helpful. 
: 
	If you just want to use Actel parts; you're better off getting their
	own tools; they have VHDL or schematics entry at low cost but if you
	want to be able to take your design abd may be retarget that to another
	family say from Xilinx or Quicklogic you're better off getting a tool
	like Exemplar or Synplicity. Integraph tool is based on At&t synthesis
	tool based on Verilog they don't have architecture dependent optimiza-
	tion and use LPMs this may be sufficient if the place and rout tools
	can do a good job with LPMs. Viewlogic tool has schematic/VHDL although
        their VHDL is not completely compatible with Synopsys or Mentor VHDL.
	I wouldn't spend money on tools coming from a copmany that's not 
	in the synthesis business(like ORCAD).

	Regards,
	Kayvon Irani
	Los Angeles, Ca 


Article: 2107
Subject: gater,density &
From: ss5d110@rzaix43.rrz.uni-hamburg.de (Bernd C++.Eggink)
Date: 16 Oct 1995 13:28:33 GMT
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       Dear Sir

        Who can give some answer ? I would very pleased
for some suggest 


                bit     transistor      gate
R3000 MIPS              115000          ?
SRAM            256k    ?               ?
SDRAM           256k    ?               ?
DRAM            4m      ?               ?
32-bit GaAs mp          ?               10000
GaAs    SRAM    16k     ?               ?
DEC 21064               5 mln           ?


Article: 2108
Subject: Re: Bet you can't do these....
From: sloan@willis.cis.uab.edu (Kenneth Sloan)
Date: 16 Oct 1995 14:42:10 -0500
Links: << >>  << T >>  << A >>
Right!  Can you please post the address of your instructor, so that we can
send the answers direct?


In article <Pine.SOL.3.91.951012192708.17854A-100000@dcsun4.comp.brad.ac.uk>,
Ian Harrison  <irharris@comp.brad.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>Right. I've got a challenge for all you boffins out there. See if you can 
>get these questions correct: (Correct answers will be posted on 15/10/95)
>
...













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Computer and Information Sciences                       (205) 934-2213
University of Alabama at Birmingham                 FAX (205) 934-5473
Birmingham, AL 35294-1170   http://www.cis.uab.edu/info/faculty/sloan/


Article: 2109
Subject: VHDL Model for XC4000 RAM Model
From: Ivan Lee <ivan>
Date: 16 Oct 1995 20:35:58 GMT
Links: << >>  << T >>  << A >>
Does anyone have or know of a VHDL model or a utility to generate VHDL
simulation model for Xilinx 4000 RAM modules?  I can easily write a behavioral
model for the RAM cell but I am looking for some proven models preferably with
full timingcheck capability.

Thanks in advance for your help.


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Article: 2110
Subject: Re: Bet you can't do these....
From: thads@csn.net (Thad Smith)
Date: 16 Oct 1995 23:48:43 -0600
Links: << >>  << T >>  << A >>
In article <Pine.SOL.3.91.951012192708.17854A-100000@dcsun4.comp.brad.ac.uk>,
Ian Harrison <irharris@comp.brad.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>Right. I've got a challenge for all you boffins out there. See if you can 
>get these questions correct: (Correct answers will be posted on 15/10/95)
>
>1. Give the IBM floating-point representations for decimal 55.4 and -53.4

It's been decades since I payed attention to that.  As I recall, IBM
used base 16.  I'll guess that 1 is stored as .1h * 16^1, so 55.4
would be (55.4)/256 * 16^2.  I think the sign was the msb of the
exponent.  I don't recall whether the mantissa was two's comp or abs +
sign and don't recall the bias, but I will guess 64.  I think the sign
+ exponent was one byte, with 3 bytes left for the mantissa in single
precision.  I think double precision had the same exponent format, but
7 bytes of mantissa.  If you really want, I can look for my old IBM
manuals.  ;-)

>2. Give the IEEE standard single-precision floating-point
representations for +29 and -29

IEEE is binary so that would be mantissa = 29/16, giving a significand
of 13/16.  The exponent is excess 128, I think, giving 7E680000 and
FE680000 with 1/8/23 bits for sign, exponent, significand.

>3. Compare the ranges, accuracy, and other system design considerations 
>for the preceding two floating-point number systems.

The IEEE-754 is more accurate than IBM single precision because it
carries 24 bits, including the implied 1 for all normalized numbers.
It has a range of approximately 10e-38 to 10e+38.  It also has
representation for infinity and indefinites (NaNs).  It also has
signed zero and high portability due to tightly-specified results.
IEEE has explicit control of rounding modes.

The IBM has a range, I think, of approximately 16^-64 to 16^+63, which
would be about 10e-77 to 10e+76.  I don't recall any representations
for infinity or indefinites, nor control of rounding modes.

>4. Write all 4-bit 2s compliment numbers (that is, sign plus 3-bit 
>numbers) and their decimal values. Show that negative numbers exceed 
>positive numbers by one. Consider 0 to be either -ve or +ve.

Piece of cake.  :-)
1000 = -8       0000 = 0
1001 = -7       0001 = 1
1010 = -6       0010 = 2
1011 = -5       0011 = 3
1100 = -4       0100 = 4
1101 = -3       0101 = 5
1110 = -2       0110 = 6
1111 = -1       0111 = 7

There are 8 negative numbers, 7 positive numbers, and one zero.  I
have no idea what you mean by -ve or +ve; zero is unsigned.

>5. How many different numbers can be stored in a set of four switches, 
>each having three different positions (four three-position switches)?

3^4 = 81.

Thad

P.S. Answers are best recollection.  If I were doing this on the job I
would look it up.


Article: 2111
Subject: Re: Altera Flex10K new family
From: Craig Jackson <cjackson@suburbia.apana.org.au>
Date: 17 Oct 1995 07:40:57 GMT
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alexk@dspis.co.il (Alex Koegel) wrote:
>
> Hello FPGA'ers,
> 
> Does anybody know when the new announced Altera Flex10K will showup in samples 
> and production ?
> 
> What will be the first member(s) of Flex10K family to be available ?
> 
> Will an average Pentium PC (90Mhz, 32Mbyte DRAM) support the fitting power 
> needed for targetting designes into the new Flex10K ?
> 
> Alex Koegel
> HW Development Manager
> DSPC Israel

Alex:

I hear that the FLEX EPF10K50 is available now, for sampling.

Cost is somewhat prohibitive, our local distributor (Veltek) said
around AUS$1200 each or so.

Next devices to be released will be the EPF10K100 and the EPF10K10,
due in a few months.  I have no idea of pricing, but have been told
that Altera plan to keep the price/gate the same as for FLEX 8000
parts, so they really won't be cheap.

My understanding is that MAX PLUS II version 6 will have full support
for these parts, and will run on a Windoze PC (Pentium or whatever).
This software is due around Christmas.

Cheers,

Craig Jackson,
Technical Officer,
Orroral Geodetic Observatory.


Article: 2112
Subject: Re: Bet you can't do these....
From: billw@puli.cisco.com (William )
Date: 17 Oct 1995 08:09:27 GMT
Links: << >>  << T >>  << A >>
    1. Give the IBM floating-point representations for decimal 55.4 and -53.4
Normalized or not?  *WHICH* IBM floating point format.

    2. Give the IEEE standard single-precision floating-point representations 
    for +29 and -29
Um, uh, arrgh...


    3. Compare the ranges, accuracy, and other system design considerations 
    for the preceding two floating-point number systems.

I do have an interesting story regarding this sort of thing.  I was trying
to do my physics homework with a classmate on the university computers
(using APL as a programmable calculator, I think.)  We had an IBM clone,
with its BCD mantissa and exponent, but it didn't have enough precision (I
forget what the actual problem was.)  So we moved over the the DEC-10,
which has binary exponent and mantissa, but it didn't have the range
(couldn't even get h-bar squared!)  A quick look a MACSYMA over the net at
MIT yielded info that there was infinite precision arithmetic available, if
only we could figure out how to use it.  Sigh.  I think we ended up on a
hand-held calculator.  Actually running into the limitations of a computer
architecture sure teaches you a lot more than the architecture classes!


    4. Write all 4-bit 2s compliment numbers (that is, sign plus 3-bit 
    numbers) and their decimal values. Show that negative numbers exceed 
    positive numbers by one. Consider 0 to be either -ve or +ve.

    5. How many different numbers can be stored in a set of four switches, 
    each having three different positions (four three-position switches)?

These last two seem ridiculously easy compared to the first two, but
perhaps thats just because I remember my base 3 and twos-complement
formats, but not the IBM format, and I never learned the IEEE FP format.

BillW


Article: 2113
Subject: Re: Bet you can't do these....
From: bartram@esmsun.gtri.gatech.edu (Dan Bartram)
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 95 12:15:10 GMT
Links: << >>  << T >>  << A >>
In article <Pine.SOL.3.91.951012192708.17854A-100000@dcsun4.comp.brad.ac.uk>,
   Ian Harrison <irharris@comp.brad.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>Right. I've got a challenge for all you boffins out there. See if you can 
>get these questions correct: (Correct answers will be posted on 15/10/95)
>

<Questions Deleted>

People like you don't need to have access to UseNet.  It is not here for
others to do your homework.  If you have a REAL question, post it, otherwise
let the rest of us exchange useful information.  By the way, don't bother
posting the answers - most of them can be found by reading any decent
architecture book (or by doing your homework yourself.)




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Research Engineer                                    FAX: (404) 894-7080
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Article: 2114
Subject: "XACT 5.1 is incompatible with everything!!!!!!!!" -- a mild exaggeration, plus some Win95 hints
From: jsgray@ix.netcom.com (Jan Gray)
Date: 17 Oct 1995 12:36:57 GMT
Links: << >>  << T >>  << A >>
In <45gbik$ebk@diable.upc.es> <cha> writes: 
>
>This is the third time XACT 5.1 fucks my Setup Configuration. Yes, the
CMOS.
>I think I'll never finish my work........
>
>                Of course, I use a PC with QEMM and I know they're not

>                 compatible. 

Are you having problems with XACT tools per se, e.g. xdm, xde, ppr,
etc., or, more likely, with WorkView/ViewLogic for DOS?  It is quite
likely that if you are experiencing that kind of corruption (as was I),
that you do not have QEMM configured properly.  Try editing the QEMM
config line in your config.sys, to exclude more regions of the I/O
address space.  For instance, I use
DEVICE=C:\QEMM\QEMM386.SYS x=a000-dfff frame=e000
which tells QEMM to keep its grubby hands off A0000 through DFFFF and
to put its expanded memory frame at E0000.

Further, my recollection is that Xilinx' 24-hr interactive support
database at http://www.xilinx.com/support/ts_auto.htm had
self-contradictory information on this problem.  One article stated
WorkView must not be run with any memory manager, another that it is
OK, maybe, to use QEMM 6.x.  My experience is that DOS WorkView only
runs with QEMM 6.x (and not later versions) and only if QEMM is
properly configured with respect to I/O space address exclusions.

For what its worth, I am now able to use XACT 5.1 tools and WorkView,
on my Win95 machine, after a fashion.  The former run fine under
Win95's HIMEM.SYS, and, as I said, the latter seems to need QEMM 6.x
which is incompatible with Win95.  Thus to use Workview I must hit F8
at Win95 startup and select option 8, boot to former DOS, with that
DOS' config.sys set up to run QEMM 6.2 as the memory manager.  (Thanks
as usual to Philip Freidin for helping me work this out.)

I have been surprised that (as far as I know) Xilinx has yet to publish
a basic Win95 how-to for its customers who are still using DOS
WorkView/ViewLogic and XACT 5.1.

(On the other hand, booting down to DOS to get DOS WorkView is so
cumbersome, and so unproductive (you lose multitasking with long
running pprs), that I rarely use WorkView, and instead express my
designs as C++ programs, building up designs from some net, gate, and
'XNF primitive' classes that I wrote.)

(By the way, the XACT 5.1 tools also run under Windows NT, assuming you
invest the time necessary to obtain, install, and configure the
security key device driver.)

Jan Gray
Redmond, WA


Article: 2115
Subject: (no subject)
From: Guy LEONHARD <leonhard>
Date: 17 Oct 1995 13:11:28 GMT
Links: << >>  << T >>  << A >>
I need to programm "one" AMD MACH-435 and I would like to know if somebody have
perform this task with a self build programmer. If so or if you know the
algorithm which must be applied, please e-mail me.

Guy LEONHARD            e-mail: Guy.Leonhard@enst-bretagne.fr



Article: 2116
Subject: (no subject)
From: Guy LEONHARD <leonhard>
Date: 17 Oct 1995 13:11:39 GMT
Links: << >>  << T >>  << A >>
I need to programm "one" AMD MACH-435 and I would like to know if somebody have
perform this task with a self build programmer. If so or if you know the
algorithm which must be applied, please e-mail me.

Guy LEONHARD            e-mail: Guy.Leonhard@enst-bretagne.fr



Article: 2117
Subject: Re: Bet you can't do these....
From: Michael Greene <mgreene@redshift.com>
Date: 17 Oct 1995 15:02:46 GMT
Links: << >>  << T >>  << A >>
billw@puli.cisco.com (William ) wrote:

>I do have an interesting story regarding this sort of thing.  I was trying
>to do my physics homework with a classmate on the university computers
>(using APL as a programmable calculator, I think.)  We had an IBM clone,
>with its BCD mantissa and exponent, but it didn't have enough precision (I
>forget what the actual problem was.)  So we moved over the the DEC-10,
>which has binary exponent and mantissa, but it didn't have the range
>(couldn't even get h-bar squared!)  A quick look a MACSYMA over the net at
>MIT yielded info that there was infinite precision arithmetic available, if
>only we could figure out how to use it.  Sigh.  I think we ended up on a
>hand-held calculator.  Actually running into the limitations of a computer
>architecture sure teaches you a lot more than the architecture classes!
>
>

In 1969 I took a frosh chem class that required we write a program to calculate 
the pH of a solution as 1 ml drops of a base are added to the solution. No brainer 
- done in an hour kind of assignment. Of a class of 200, only 2 of us got it. Both 
of us had to talk to the prof (separately). I was looking at a printout of my 
results as the prof was working on a fancy device called a HP programmable 
caculator. Very, very rare in those days! Our results went lock step up to a pH of 
about 6.9 and then we went different ways. My single precision variables dropped 
out and his 48 bit variables held on. It was my first year writing code and it was 
my first lesson in single versus double precision. I think it was the prof's as 
well. We both realized what the problem was at the same time.

Instead of telling the class that they would need to use double precision 
variables to solve the problem, the problem was dropped as a requirement. Sigh - 
all those hours for nothing except a personal lesson in double precision 
variables.
-- 
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Article: 2118
Subject: Library of Parametrized Modules info
From: dimitris@engn.uwindsor.ca (Dimitris Phoukas)
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 17:56:26 GMT
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Can someone give me a pointer to a location describing the Library of
Parametrized Modules format
and design style? I am familiar with Xilinx XBLOX only.

Also, is  it possible to instantiate/generate new LPMs from within VHDL?
Which vendors support LPMs in their P&R tools?

Thanks in advance, 

Dimitris Phoukas
VLSI Research Group, University of Windsor

-- 
Dimitris Phoukas
University of Windsor
VLSI Research Group
Windsor, ONT, N9B 3P4
CANADA


Article: 2119
Subject: Re: Programming AMD Mach Parts
From: bartram@esmsun.gtri.gatech.edu (Dan Bartram)
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 95 22:28:32 GMT
Links: << >>  << T >>  << A >>
In article <460a2b$vrg@melimelo.enst-bretagne.fr>,
   Guy LEONHARD <leonhard> wrote:
>I need to programm "one" AMD MACH-435 and I would like to know if somebody 
have
>perform this task with a self build programmer. If so or if you know the
>algorithm which must be applied, please e-mail me.

AMDs MachXL Software and Downloading cable are free, just call them
and ask for it - Toll Free number in France is 0590-8621 (listed on back of
AMDs MachXL data book.


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Research Engineer                                    FAX: (404) 894-7080
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Atlanta, GA  30318
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Article: 2120
Subject: Re: Bet you can't do these....
From: aqualung@mince.ugcs.caltech.edu (Dave Bartolomeo)
Date: 18 Oct 1995 04:09:29 GMT
Links: << >>  << T >>  << A >>
irharris@comp.brad.ac.uk (Ian Harrison) writes:

>Right. I've got a challenge for all you boffins out there. See if you can 
>get these questions correct: (Correct answers will be posted on 15/10/95)

>1. Give the IBM floating-point representations for decimal 55.4 and -53.4

>2. Give the IEEE standard single-precision floating-point representations 
>for +29 and -29

>3. Compare the ranges, accuracy, and other system design considerations 
>for the preceding two floating-point number systems.

>4. Write all 4-bit 2s compliment numbers (that is, sign plus 3-bit 
>numbers) and their decimal values. Show that negative numbers exceed 
>positive numbers by one. Consider 0 to be either -ve or +ve.

>5. How many different numbers can be stored in a set of four switches, 
>each having three different positions (four three-position switches)?

  Do your own homework, boy.  How are you supposed to learn if we feed
you all the answers?

-Dave



Article: 2121
Subject: Ceramic Resonators with xc3000 int. Oscillator
From: "Ingo Cyliax" <cyliax@cs.indiana.edu>
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 00:03:02 -0500
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Hi

I'm trying to get a 480Khz ceramic resonator to work with the
internal oscillator module of an xc3030APC44. I have gotten
crystals to work (i.e. I know about the -S1 flag to makebits).
Is 480Khz too low ? The module is spec'ed for 1-20Mhz. What
values of R1 (1Mohm), R2 (0), C1/C2 (220pF) should I be using ?

Any ideas ?

Thanks, -ingo
-- 
/* Ingo Cyliax, cyliax@cs.indiana.edu, +1 812 333 4854, +1 812 855 6984 (day) */


Article: 2122
Subject: Re: Library of Parametrized Modules info
From: kirani@cinenet.net (kayvon irani)
Date: 18 Oct 1995 07:14:19 GMT
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Dimitris Phoukas (dimitris@engn.uwindsor.ca) wrote:
: Can someone give me a pointer to a location describing the Library of
: Parametrized Modules format
: and design style? I am familiar with Xilinx XBLOX only.
: 

	I attended the Altera Flex10K seminar and they talked a lot about
	LPM. They claim their tools MaxplusII is supporting LPM so you can
	instantiate modules from the library in your VHDL say on Mentor and 
	still get optimized logic. They say they plan to migrate the LPM to
	VHDL in the future.

	Regards
	Kayvon Irani
	Los Angeles


Article: 2123
Subject: Re: REPOST: Design Contest Write-up ( was "Jury Verdict + Test Benches" )
From: swilmot@faraday.ucd.ie (Sinbad Wilmot)
Date: 18 Oct 1995 08:17:20 GMT
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In article <45pkld$753@news.Belgium.EU.net>, jand says...
>
>ekatjr@eua.ericsson.se (Robert Tjarnstrom) wrote:
>
>>Currently microprocessors perform about 5 times better than ASIC design, 
although
>>using comparable manufacturing technology. What is the poor process 
utilization 
>>due to?
>>
>Maybe it's because increasing the clock frequency of a uP is one of only
>methods 
>left to speed up the Von Neumann bottleneck (before more radical architectural
>changes, such as computing with programmable logic, become unavoidable), 
making
>it worthwhile to throw development money and power dissipation at it? Maybe uP
>designers have been unexpectedly succesful to do this, perhaps because they 
are
>increasingly applying ASIC design techniques such as timing-driven logic
>synthesis?
>
>>Will a move to "higher abstraction levels" increase or decrease the gap?
>The only significant influence should be on design time (otherwise such
>a move is not acceptable).
>
>Regards, Jan
>
 The Von Neumann architecture, while historically the main architecture used 
for microprocessors, cannot really be attributed to processors like the PowerPC 
or the Pentium as their architectures go a little beyond this due to on chip 
memory cache, the reason that ASICs often perform better than microprocessors 
is because they are usually designed for specific applications, while 
microprocessors must be tailored for the application- not altogether possible 
in some cases as a result of their architecture which can involves pipelines 
which aren't always fully pipelined (depending on what instruction they are 
executing).  Generally, while a microprocessor may have a faster clock speed 
what is achieves in 5 instructions an ASIC can be designed to achieve it in 
one, bang goes the speed considerations.



Article: 2124
Subject: Xilinx Configuration Memory Hacking
From: news@tumlis.lis.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 11:42:57 GMT
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Hi all,

is there anyone, who has tried to hack the internal configuration memory
structure of Xilinx FPGA's?



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