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Honored Contributorstrange behaviour of square root VHDL code
I need a plain VHDL-square root code for a special purpose and used "google code search". I thus found the following code in their files, obviously written by Altera. http://www.google.com/c...
Altera_ForumHonored Contributor
Honored ContributorAn interesting solution: http://http://vhdlguru.blogspot.com/2010/03/vhdl-function-for-finding-square-root.html (http://http://vhdlguru.blogspot.com/2010/03/vhdl-function-for-finding-square-root.html)
It synthesizes into a combinatorial function which will run quite slow (44 ns tpd on a Stratix II C3 speed grade) but pipelining it should be reasonably straightforward.
