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14 years ago

Support for floating point arithmetic and the VHDL-2008's float_pkg by Quartus-II

I am trying to develop a design that involves floating point arithmetic with DSPs in an Arria-II GX device. I would like my code to be portable so I am trying to avoid the use of MegaCores. Does anyb...
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14 years ago

For reasonable performance, float arithmetic needs pipelined operation. It's not provided by the float package yet, I wonder if pipelining is an alien concept for the authors.