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Honored ContributorFixed Point or Floating point implementation
I need to implement closed loop controllers like multiple PID controller in FPGA. I also need to do some signal preconditioning and signal processing in fpga. I would like to know if its bett...
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Honored ContributorFixed point arithmatic is the same as integer arithmatic, so therefore very fast and very cheap in FPGAs
Floating pouint is slow and logic hungry. Always avoid floating point in FPGAs when possible.
