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18 years ago

what is the data type of floating??

In my program i want to calculate some floating datas , but i dont know much about the data type about Altera. whether I can define them just like I did in VC. i want some material about such fiel...
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18 years ago

The Nios II compiler will provide you with IEEE754 floating point math for single and double precision. This means that round to nearest (floating point math isn't exact so this is the closest you can get) will be implemented and denormal support is not available (that's when a number becomes so small it might as well be zero). The floating point megawizard functions provide similar math support.