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14 years ago

Floating point multiplication megafunction

Hello everyone, I am currently trying to use floating point multiplication megafunction. But I always get result 0 no matter what are the inputs. This is what I do: 1. Get into megawizard and ...
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14 years ago

There are no megafunctions for fixed point because all of the arithmatic is integer arithmatic. So you either use the standard megafunctions (lpm_mult, lpm_add_sub etc) or you can just use behavioural code.

This means the latency is MUCH lower, and logic use is MUCH smaller.