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15 years ago

Floating point megafunctions

Hello, Has anyone had a problem with the altera's mega functions? My 1st output when I used the divide is always 3fdfffc0. And I always enable as soon as I store my 1st input. Al...
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15 years ago

From the pdf: "dataa[] Yes

Numerator data input. The MSB is the sign bit, the next MSBs are the exponent, and

the LSBs are the mantissa. The size of this port is the total width of the sign bit,

exponent bits and mantissa bits."

Here is a handy webpage I use when I'm working on floating point numbers: http://www.h-schmidt.net/floatapplet/ieee754.html