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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

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

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Yes. The code you origionall posted:

temp <= number1 + number2

sum <= temp(7 downto 4)