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17 years agoFloating Point Multiplier latency???
Hello, i have instantiated and synthesized an ALTFP_MULT in QuartusII with double precision and 5 output latency. I have extracted the post-synthesis netlist and successfully simulated ...
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17 years agoLooks like 5 clock cyles to me. Just counting the rising edges in your simulation, I see 5. The output comes out exactly in line with the 5th rising edge because you're doing an RTL simulation, but in essence think that it occurs "after" that edge, as nothing can use it until the next rising edge. So it occurs through 5 edges(imagine 5 registers in a row), and each register sends its data out immediately. If you go to a timing simulation(which I generally don't recommend), the data will come out some finite time after this edge.