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10 years ago

Computing Argument of a Complex Number

Hi, I have a complex input, both I & Q are 16 bit wide signed integers, and I want to compute its argument. I have read several solutions, CORDIC, LUT based ATAN, and Altera ATAN function. The...
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10 years ago

Please excuse my ignorance, but... what is "puts"? Or do you mean LUTs?

I've just read the documentation of this core:

http://opencores.org/project,cordic

It does exactly what I want, converting rectangular to polar... seems like I tend to use it. What do you think?