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Native Floating Point

HDL Coder native floating-point, the various features supported, how to model your design, generate HDL code, and verify the generated code

HDL Coder™ native floating-point technology can generate HDL code from your floating-point design. These are some of the key features:

  • Generation of target-independent HDL code that you can deploy on any FPGA or ASIC.

  • Support for the full range of IEEE-754 features including denormal numbers, exceptions, and rounding modes.

  • Extensive support for math and trigonometric blocks.

Floating-point designs have better precision, higher dynamic range, and a shorter development cycle than fixed-point designs. If your design has complex math and trigonometric operations, use native floating-point technology.

Functions

createFloatingPointTargetConfigCreate floating-point target configuration for floating-point library that you specify

Blocks

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Float TypecastTypecast a floating-point type to an unsigned integer or vice versa

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Troubleshooting

Optimize Generated HDL Code for Multirate Designs with Large Rate Differentials

Causes and possible solutions for fixing HDL code generation issues with multirate models that have large rate differentials.