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10 years ago

Me and my simple questions: Can I do this in FPGA?

Hi dear Altera friends. Sorry for the simple questions, i'm a beginner. My FPGA is DE1-SoC University, i'm learning how to use it. My question today is the following one: Until now, with t...
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10 years ago

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Why do you want to use bcd? That makes things very complicated and use a lot of resources. Why not just work in binary like every other language? You can easily do arithmatic in vhdl with the IEEE.numeric_std library

A <= b + (c*d);

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Very interesting, so you suggest me to convert the input from decimal to entirely Binary, process everything inside and then to convert back to decimal?