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Altera_Forum
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10 years ago

What happened to vhdl.org?

I was looking for the fixed-point libraries for fixed-point and floating-point arithmetic's from David Bishop, they used to be here http://www.vhdl.org/fphld/vhdl.htmbut now the website is gone. Any ...
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10 years ago

They are not cores, they are '93 compatible versions of VHDL2008 standard libraries. As far as I can tell this code is not available on opencores.

I have found a version available here: https://github.com/ctn-waterloo/nef-fpga/tree/master/contrib/fixed_pkg

Though this appears not to be the altera specific version that was created, I remember that the altera version was fairly identical to the base package.

To try an improve things - ask altera for an enhancement request to include the library with their quartus distribution, or even better - get full VHDL 2008 support.