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17 years ago

fixed-point tips

Hi I have some experience with Quartus, but in the past have only worked on projects that implement very basic boolean expressions (like generating pulses with user defined widths and delays)....
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17 years ago

The Altera MegaFunctions are also inferred, when using arithmetic operators in HDL code, in addition, there are synthesis attributes to specify e.g. priority for hardware or software multiplier. They can be used for the design as a whole, for design units or part of them.

So in most cases, you don't have to care for the usage of MegaFunctions respectively the optimal implementation of your code.