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8 years ago

Floating Point multiplication problem!

Hello! I'm trying to mult 10-bit bus with floating point constant 0.5. To do this I am using a IP FP arithmetic blocks. First - conversion 10 bit bus to 32 float, then - multiplication block (3...
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8 years ago

Multiplying by 0.5 is the same as divide by 2, which is just a 1 bit shift to the right, and discard the LSB (and/or maybe do some rounding).

Why do you want to use floating point?

LPM_Constant just drives an integer, not a floating point.