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Altera_Forum
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16 years ago

Using megafunction vs just Verilog expression

What is the advantage of creating for exapple a multiplier with the megafunction wizard for multiplying m and n, vs just writing m*n?
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Altera_Forum
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16 years ago

I guess the megafunction would be the most optimised code, having the choice of pipelining. You can open the .v file and see what optimisations they implement. I guess that a MF multiplier would also take care of some exceptional cases such as multiplying infinity and such.

Hope this makes sense