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15 years ago

Huge reduce in logic usage when megafunction is instantiated

Hi guys, I've been playing around with the floating point megafunctions, and I tried to implement it on hardware. I noticed that when I compiled a floating point adder on its own, it used arou...
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15 years ago

Guys!

I finally got it! As I kept reading your posts over and over again, it suddenly hit me!

It was because I forced the inputs to certain values in software, that's why it compiled to be much smaller due to the optimisations it did!

Thanks a lot guys, this question's kinda been bugging me whole day like a bad song in my head. Now I can rest well. Haha.

Best regards,

Chris