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14 years ago

FIR Megafunction Signed (Fractional) Binary only?

I am using Quartus II 11.0. It looks like the FIR filter Megafunction supports only Signed Binary or Signed Fractional Binary. As far as I understand, this means that the MSB is the sign bit, a...
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14 years ago

Sign-magnitude is a rather inpracticable numeric format and not used by any Altera IP, as far I'm aware of. It's only an option when displaying numeric vaues in SignalTap and other tools.