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14 years ago

Adding and resizing in one step

Hi, Is there a way to add two unsigned numbers and extract only the x most significant bits from it in one step? I want something like this: sum <= resize(number1 + number2,4) In...
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14 years ago

Thanks kaz for your reply!

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sum = (num1 + num2)/2**4;

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I guess that in this case sum must have the same size as num1 and num2? I would rather have that sum already has the smaller size.

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alternatively if you can accept truncation errors then:

sum <= num1(6 downto 4) + num2(6 downto 4);

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I think I will go with this one.

If there would be a way to avoid truncation errors, please let me know.