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ryangjoraas
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1 year ago

Ability of Cyclone IVE to do floating point arithmetic

Hi - I am using a Cyclone IVE FPGA currently and would like to know recommended ways for it to do floating point arithmetic? I was originally thinking of implementing a Nios II core, but because ...
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FvM
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1 year ago

Hi,
according to Nios V reference manual, V/g can be implemented with Cyclone IV E.

See table 69, performance benchmark.

Technically, there's no reason why Cyclone IV shouldn't be supported because logic core of Cyclone IV, 10 LP and MAX10 is the same.

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ryangjoraas
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1 year ago

Hi - Thanks for the message.

I do have one last question - per the performance benchmark table, do I need to use the Quartus Prime Standard or Pro edition to build and compile my project or can I use the Quartus Prime Lite edition?