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10 years ago

ALTACCUM Megafunction not in Quartus II v 13.0.1

Hi there I want to include an accumulator ino a design, but the ALTACCUM Megafunction seems to be missing. The ALTMULT_ACCUM is still present, but i don't want to waste the multiplier and add u...
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10 years ago

I would simply code it into registers.

ALTACCUM was, almost certainly, deemed superfluous with the number of registers and performance available in the newer families.

What accumulator width and performance are you looking for? If your benchmark is the accumulator IP for Cyclone III then I suspect you'll achieve that in registers in Cyclone IV.

Cheers,

Alex