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Dear all, I'm creating an ALU for a homemade NIOS II compatible processor with Quartus Prime, targeting the Cyclone V. I discovered that, depending on the operations ordering, the ALU has a differ...
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Honored ContributorThe ALU's operation is selected by a signal. In the above example, the ALU performs addition when that signal is equal to 0; substraction when equal to 1… By "operation ordering" I meant the mapping between ALU's control signal and the operations: which operation ALU's perform when that control signal equals XXX.
