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16 years ago

how to create a multiplier or adder for floating point

when i create a multiplier, adder or comparator using megawizard in quartus do these blocks also valid when i use floating point input such that if the 2 input to the adder are 10 bits length and...
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16 years ago

For add/substract floating point numbers use altfp_add_sub megafuntion, for multiply altfp_mult megafuntion. All megafunctions whose names begin with "altfp" operate with floating point numbers (single precision 32 bits and double precision 64 bits). Be carefull, because floating point arithmetic is expensive, check this first.