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16 years ago

Floating Point Matrix Multiplication

I want to multiply a 56x56 matrix with a 56x1 matrix in floating point. There is a altfp_matrix_mult megafunction which does not compute this quickly enough. I am looking for ideas to implement ...
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16 years ago

Is latency really a factor? whats the application for this?

FPGAs really dont like doing floating point. I would reocmmened trying to convert it to fixed point as it Hugely reduces the latency and logic requirements. If you really have to do it floating point, you're stuck with long latency and large resource requirements.