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12 years ago

dividing to 32bit signed integers with ieee_fixed_pkg -> error

Hello everyone, I am trying to divide two 32 bit signed integer signals (see code below). I am using the fixed point package from bishop, which invokes the lpm_divide megafunction. When compili...
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Probably the same basic reason why dividing -32768 by -1 gives a value that is outside 16 bits.

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Ok. This would explain why I might exceed the output width of the calculated result, but not why a 32 bit input signal appears to be larger then the limiting 64 bits?