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11 years ago

Optimization: If vs CASE, which one?

Hello people, I was recently reading the ALTERA synthesis manual and I saw that the IF statement is more resource demanding than the CASE statement. In cases where we use a lone IF as in the fo...
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11 years ago

Thess are parallel statements, no priority involved if the results are ORed. A case construct won't represent the function.

If pipelining is necessary depends on the timing constraints, you should try.