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15 years ago

Floating point accumulator - feedback loops

Hello, I am attempting to design a single precision floating point accumulator. DSPB reports that a latency of at least 9 clocks is needed in the accumulation loop to allow for the floating po...
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15 years ago

Tricky,

I am afraid I have no choice but to use floating point due to the dynamic range of the signals in the design.

I realise that I will need parallel accumulators, I was hoping there was a clever way of making the tools schedule data to them (I have vectored the input signals and this seems to control the multiple instantiations).