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Honored ContributorFloating 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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Honored Contributor --- Quote Start --- Frankly I have never heard of any fpga engineer using fp. May be those in Nasa Space centre will object. There might be some cases which I am not aware of. I am personally not clearheaded about the difference in computational efficiency between fp and wide fixed point as wide as fp or twice !. You can see for yourself an Fmax of 1MHz, certainly useless. I will be surprised if your tool does not let you go fixed point. --- Quote End --- The purpose of this topic was just to understand why the fp are not working in my design :D Im saying it without any rancor and without being argumentative :D
