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11 years ago

Cost of implementation of logic and arithmetic operations

Hello Members, My question: What is the cost of implementation, in terms of logic elements, frequency, memories, area ..., of the logic and arithmetic operations (addition, subtraction, mu...
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11 years ago

I should have mentioned specifically in my reply that I don't know of any such documentation. I don't know if a given operation will always take the same resources. It might depend on the context and on what timing constraints you've entered. I know I've seen resource usage change significantly by what look like small changes to code and/or timing constraints.