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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

The range of values from −128 to 127 is for exponent part of your floating number, not the number itself.

I also head for synhtetisable floating point. I have found IEEE packages that work in ModelSim but not in Quartus yet (version <= 12.0sp1).