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15 years agoFloat to Fixed Point in FPGA
Hi there.
I have DSP code in C with floating point, now I try to convert to FPGA to use fixed point. Can you guys show me how to do it? I did little research document from http://www.vhdl.org/fphdl/ with fixed_pkg_c.vhdl. But I don't know how to start. example in C: i_sample = 0.7071; q_sample = 0.2487; How do I take this floating point to convert to fixed point or hex value? Thank you guys, Sean11 Replies
- Altera_Forum
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you need to scale according to your target range. If a signal is swinging say +/-1 then to scale it for 10 bit signed you need the max value of 1 = 511 and so on:
value = round(511*signal/max(abs(signal))); You may go lower for any other reason.