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13 years ago

FPGA Multiplication Resource Utilization

Hi, I need to do 18x7 multiplication and my FPGA doesnt have the built in DSP blocks, so I am using behavioral code in the source code to do the multiplication. It is taking around 190 LUT to do ...
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13 years ago

Hi,

Thank you for your response, can you please elaborate on this, I didnt follow what you meant by:

if I want multiply any number by 64 then I just add 6 leading zeros.

The synthesis tools are smart enough whether I use a Multiplier (*) in my source code or a shift operator correct and use the same resources???

Thank You.