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14 years ago

Floating point numbers and latency

I have just implemented the Fibonacci design explained on the ch4 Primitive Library Tutorial. I wanted to try it using floating point numbers so i changed the parameters of the blocks, after the f...
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14 years ago

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Just curious, why use floating point at all. I see this popping up in many posts. In fpgas floating point requires great lots of resource. If you want higher resolution why not just use fixed point of very wide bitwidth...

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Because for some applications are better and if DSP offers this possibility why dont exploit it?