Summary

In this chapter, we took our temperature sensor project and improved upon it using fixed-point math. We removed our startup condition so that the temperature is output almost immediately and constantly filtered through the life of the design. We then looked at floating-point operations and converted the design into a floating-point pipeline. This led us to introducing AXI streaming, which will only become more important as we proceed throughout this book.

In the next chapter, we are going to delve further into AXI interfaces, package up some of our IP into AXI format so that we can reuse it, and introduce the IP integrator and block design tool.