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11 years ago

some basic questions about altera

hi everone, i am new to altera, and i have some basic questions about altera 1. if i use verilog, can quartus synthesis multipliation and division? 2. if i use VHDL, can quartus synthesis multi...
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10 years ago

Multipliers and dividers often get mapped to DSP blocks which run way faster than the lookup table logic. assign foo = a * b; or assign foo = a / b; work fine in Quartus. You can check the fitter resource summary to see if lookup tables or DSP embedded multiplier blocks are being used.