03-20-2020 01:00 PM
I should work with inputs like : -0.3016957 in my VHDL program and when I do my researchs I found that I should work with fixed point and I call this library library ieee_proposed; in my code but the problem is it gives me an error that ieee_proposed is not found or known.
So the question is how can I import this library in my project ?
03-20-2020 03:20 PM
03-20-2020 04:10 PM
I am using ModelSim-Altera 10.1d (Quartus II 13) and my numbers are coded in 11 bits.
Is the fixed point exist just in vhdl 2008 ?? or I can work with it in my version of modelsim ?
I should load a vector of this kind of numbers and then do some operations with them like calculate the average ?
So should I use the fixed point or not ?
if you any advise you are welcome
03-21-2020 05:57 AM
03-21-2020 06:29 AM
ieee_proposed was a library that was setup to allow 2008 feature libraries written in VHDL 1993 language to allow people to use them while there was no compatible tools.
Its now 2020 (12 years later) and VHDL 2008 has very good support. Forget about ieee_proposed and just used ieee library:
library ieee; use ieee.fixed_pkg.all;
You will need to turn on 2008 compatability to do this. You may need to use a newer version of modelsim
03-21-2020 11:51 AM
03-21-2020 12:15 PM
Vhdl 2008 is well supported by all tools. xilinx is just way behind everyone else. The main simulators are usually the first to get new support. Modelsim got 2008 support in 10.0. Activehdl has some vhdl2019 support in the latest release. All synth tools now have decent 2008 support.
03-21-2020 01:40 PM
Thank you so much for your time
So what I understand from your answers is the IEEE library is enough for my version of modelSim and I should use UNSIGNED for float numbers
03-22-2020 01:09 AM
Floating point are different from fixed point.
Floating point is a N bit number with a mantissa and exponent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating-point_arithmetic
The implementation of floating point in FPGA is expensive and high latency.
Fixed point is just an integer offset by 2^N. This can be done cheaply in an FPGA using integer arithmatic.
for example, 2.75 can be represented as a 4 bit unsigned integer, which is offset by 2^N.
2.75 = 1011 (11 in decimal) / 2^2.
You can do this using unsigned, but you need to manually ensure that all integer/fraction separatations are aligned manually by manually zero/sign bit padding to maintain alignment.
The fixed_pkg provided in VHDL 2008 (and from the ieee_proposed) provides more useful types ufixed and sfixed, where the integer/fraction separation is built into the type, and bit alignment is all handled for you:
signal s4_4 : sfixed(3 downto -4); signal s8_1 : sfixed(7 downto -1); signal s9_4 : sfixed(11 downto -4); s9_4 <= s4_4 + s8_1;
Quartus prime pro has full 2008 support
As does Vivado 2019
03-25-2020 04:57 AM
input1 : in ufixed( 11 DOWNTO 0 );
In my code there is an input it's type ufixed and I want to simulate the code via modelsim
I tested this but it does not working
How can I modify it to test my code ??
03-25-2020 05:01 AM - edited 03-25-2020 05:01 AM
Dont use Forces - write a testbench.
03-26-2020 02:21 PM
Thank you very much for spending your time to replying.
Do you have some resources to recommend for me in order to write a test bench in modelsim ?
I'm searching since yesterday but still found nothing useful.
03-26-2020 02:35 PM
There are many resources around the web
03-27-2020 12:42 AM