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Altera_Forum
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14 years ago

Need a crash course in FPGAs

I just, uh, "discovered" FPGAs about a week ago and from what I've learned so far, they seem perfectly suited for vector control of an induction motor, compared to running a 100k lines of C code thro...
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14 years ago

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*groan* - I thought that the massively parallel structure would effectively make them good at floating point?!

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The big question is do you really need floating point? do you really use the entire dynamic range? fixed point gives you good precision with the bonus that all the arithmatic is just integer arithmatic (using very few resources and 1 clock to complete).