Modelsim: Interpretation of numbers in wave window

Hi eleteria,

The given bit sequence “00000000000000000000000000000000 . 00101110000000000000000000000000” represents fraction in binary so you should check “float32” option in Radix.

Let me know if this has helped resolve the issue you are facing or if you need any further assistance.

Best Regards

Vikas Jathar

Intel Customer Support – Engineering

(Under Contract to Intel)

Hello!

First of all, thanks for your effort and interest in replying!

The 64 bit sequence is a fixed fractional number, not a float number. I.e. the 32 first bits represents the number and the 32 last (LSB ) represents the fractional part, 1/2 and below.

But the most amazing thing regarding this, is that if I do the same with a 32 bit, with 16 bit integer, 16 fractional bits, then everything works perfectly.

The 32-bit sequence: 0000000000000000 . 0000000100000000 i.e. 1/128 = 0.0078125 is showed correctly with radix fixed#16#decimal#signed. (signed/unsigned does not matter, it works correctly)

See attached image.

This is nothing short of mind blowing to me, I simply can't understand it.

Anybody that has any idea here?

My test development has pretty much come to a halt.

I guess this is just a bump. :)

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After a thorough investigation, this is simply a bug in Modelsim. Just replying for other users future knowledge.

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Though late but I think there is trivial misunderstanding of terminology.

It looks like Modelsim means by decimal as signed (without decimal point), unsigned as unsigned(without decimal point) and fixed point for binary with decimal point defintion. Thus your above

value is viewed without decimal point unless you choose fixed point. For signed/unsigned it ignores decimal point entered for fixed point.

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Though late but I think there is trivial misunderstanding of terminology.

It looks like Modelsim means by decimal as signed (without decimal point), unsigned as unsigned(without decimal point) and fixed point for binary with decimal point defintion. Thus your above

value is viewed without decimal point unless you choose fixed point. For signed/unsigned it ignores decimal point entered for fixed point.

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I'm sorry, but please read through my previous posts more carefully.

For every even bit length <64 it works. Given the fact that I also have 15+ year experience in programming I can easily say that this is a bug. Classical index out of bounds error.

Regarding decimal, that is how it's presented in the wave window. Signed/unsigned doesn't matter at all.

This is already concluded to be a bug in the Xilinx forum. Thanks for your interest though.