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15 years ago

Multiplier and Divider

I am new to the forum, but not VHDL. I am a student at RIT and have taken classes and am very familiar with the language. The questions I have are more of what should my hardware multiplier and divid...
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15 years ago

For me, Quartus 10, The megawizard lets me create an LPM_MULT for a cyclone two that has 2x 256bit inputs and 512 bit output. So no need for any overflow.

Basically, 32 bit multiply is trivial in even the most basic of FPGAs. overflow is never needed.