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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

10 bits is a very low resolution for floating point representation, anyway, in that case you must describe your own arithmetic cores. Instead, i think you should use a fixed-point representation with, say, 18 bits of resolution.

Are you going to use theese arithmetic operators on your turbo decoder? what is the more frequent arithmetic operation? what are the maximum values of domain and range?