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15 years ago

NIOS2 HW & DIV Instructions + FPU

Hello i am in charge of designing a system that does a lot of complex sin/cos/* instructions and i need them to be fast. I am using NIOS2-F at 100mhz in a Cyclone IV. I've enabled HW and DIV ...
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15 years ago

I'm not sure which functions are in 'newlib' (libc), but for speed you'd want the sin/cos functions that act on float (not double) and have compiled newlib itself to use the FP custom instructions.