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12 years ago

conversion of negative floating point number in binary using VHDL

I was literally stuck witha problem regarding the conversion of negative floating point number in binary and to write it in VHDL.For example the num is -0.8.when i convert it into binary it is like ....
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12 years ago

If you don't use floating point, you'll most likely refer to a fixed point format with a specific number of fractional bits. You need to define the used format before converting to it.