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12 years ago

floating number with synthetisable vhdl code

Hi, I have to use floating number with my VHDL code wich wille be implemented in a de2 card so how can I use floating point?? I have seen that this method use number between (-128)et 127 if I...
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12 years ago

I dont know where you got this idea of limitation from - but Altera IP cores can go up to 32 bit floating point, meaning they can go from -3.4028234 × 10^38 to 3.4028234 × 10^38

Thats a rather large range.