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15 years ago

lpm mult with Quartus II 10.0?

I haven't used Altera tools for ages, but I'm working on a Cyclone 3 design now, so I'm trying to understand them. The design is going to use many 20x20 signed multipliers. I had hoped that the...
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15 years ago

i think you can take the instantiation of the lpm function out of the generated HDL that you edited, and use that component declaration and instantiation in your own HDL. you can probably even change parameters, just make sure they are legal since this is normally taken care of by the wizard.

you'll probably spend more time than you'd like writing HDL that will do the same as the MegaWizard (as far as performance and resource usage are concerned)