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15 years ago

Floating Point with Fixed Point FPGA

Good day. I know this has been discussed a lot, but each situation seems different. I want to implement trigonometry functions on a Fixed Point FPGA. Can you please assist me with...
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15 years ago

If processing time isn't an issue, CORDIC may be an alternative for high resolution trigonometric functions. Or, even more simple, but slower, power series, the classical method used by numeric co-processors and software float libraries.