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13 years agoAltera floating point megafunction output latency
Hi! I work with Altera Cyclone IV.
I have a question about altera floating point megafunctions, for example fp_add_sub or fp_mult. I can choose output latency in clock cycles, minimum is 7 or 6 respectively if mantissa width is 23 and exponent width is 8. In Xilinx Spartan 3, in floating point core I can specify output latency as low as zero or one clock cycle in same cases. The question is why Altera doesn't provide such ability, I mean it is useful to have an output faster, especially if I generate Taylor series or smth like that.