Square Root of floating point number

[Luca]

I must model an A.L.U. for computing the square root of floating point
digits. Has anyone done comething like that? Where can I find some
help material (i.e. concernings algorythms for computing square root)?

 

[salman sheikh]

Luca wrote:

I must model an A.L.U. for computing the square root of floating point
digits. Has anyone done comething like that? Where can I find some
help material (i.e. concernings algorythms for computing square root)?

http://perso.ens-lyon.fr/jeremie.detrey/FPLibrary/

has everything u need. I am using his stuff in an actual FPGA design for
my employer!!


Salman Sheikh