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9 years ago

Two's Complement and Floating Point

Hello, I have a range of integer values coming into my system in a two's complement format (positive and negative values). I run these through the altfp_convert module to make these integers ...
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9 years ago

Then I suspect the output is always +ve

Is there any reason you're using floating point? it's very costly to implement in terms of logic and latency. Fixed point is much cheaper.