On 9/1/20 10:03 pm, pnp wrote:
Are there some steps to add support to a new cpu such as microblaze?
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I don't think we have a documented procedure for adding a new CPU
architecture: it is not that common.
The microblaze is a soft core built in HDL, targeting an FPGA. I would
try to break the question into three parts:
- Does the python support for the microblaze implement any the Python C-API?
- Does the C compiler for microblase support enough of the c99 language
so that NumPy can be synthesized?
and once NumPy is running:
- Are there acceleration libraries that could supply a BLAS-like interface?
My approach would be to "make it run" then "make it fast", but I doubt
the high-level (c) tools are up to the task of sythesizing the NumPy C
code to HDL without alot of work.
It might be better to approach this task in a different direction: take
one of the NumPy-like projects (CuPy might be a good starting point) and
rewrite the C code parts in a way that can be synthesized.
Matti
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