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10 years ago

Floating-Point calculation in nios

hi everyone, i have read the " Using NiosII Floating-Point Custom Instructions Tutorial.pdf", it shows that use Floating-Point Custom Instructions can increase the Floating-Point calculate speed r...
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The Floating Point Hardware 2 supports about 17-18 single precision floating points operations only. - add/sub/max/min/div/mul/round/....

The functions in math.h is implemented using newlib, which is the standard C library. Nios will emulate these functions in software.