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13 years ago

Fixed Point VHDL Support in Quartus

I am asking how people have found the synthesis results with the new VHDL2008 package for fixed point. I have created a design that is a cascaded filter simulating a three phase RL load for a motor c...
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12 years ago

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In contrast to IEEE fixed point package, floating point package is effectively useless for logic synthesis because it's not able to generate any pipelining.

You should use the Altera floating point MegaFunctions instead, they provide al operations you want.

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But i am using the quartus 2 version 9.0 and altera DE2 board with cyclone 2 device. is it support for megafunction? since i had download the design example of megafunction using my quartus 2 but it said this version is not compatible to open this design example project.