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9 years ago

Floating point addition in vhdl

Hii I want to add 4 floating point no.what will be the result range.I am using library ieee_proposed; use ieee_proposed.fixed_pkg.all; this package.For example if I want to add two floating...
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9 years ago

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Just break it down in to multiple 2 input additions. There are 3 additions, so the output needs to be 3 bits bigger than the largest input.

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Excuse me for being a bit of a bore, but if you add up 4 values, an extension with 2 bits suffices ...