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Product Specification
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Introduction
The Xilinx® Floating-Point core provides designers
with the means to perform floating-point arithmetic on
an FPGA device. The core can be customized for
operation, word length, latency, and interface.
Features
• Available for Kintex
™
-7, Virtex
®
-7, Virtex-6,
Virtex-5, Virtex-4, Spartan
®
-6, Spartan-3/XA,
Spartan-3E/XA, Spartan-3A/AN/3A DSP/XA
FPGAs
• Supported operators:
•multiply
• add/subtract
•divide
• square-root
•comparison
• conversion from floating-point to fixed-point
• conversion from fixed-point to floating-point
• conversion between floating-point types
•Compliance with IEEE-754 Standard (with only
minor documented deviations)
• Parameterized fraction and exponent wordlengths
•Use of XtremeDSP
™
slice for multiply
• Use of XtremeDSP slice for single and double
precision add/subtract operations on Virtex and
Kintex families
• Optimizations for speed and latency
• Fully synchronous design using a single clock
• For use with CORE Generator™ software which is
available in the Xilinx ISE
®
13.1 software
LogiCORE IP Floating-Point
Operator v5.0
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LogiCORE IP Facts Table
Core Specifics
Supported
Device Family
1
1. For a complete listing of supported devices, see the release
notes for this core.
Virtex-7, Kintex-7,
Virtex-6, Virtex-5, Virtex-4,
Spartan
®
-6, Spartan-3/XA, Spartan-3E/XA,
Spartan-3A/3AN/3A DSP/XA
Supported User
Interfaces
N/A
Provided with Core
Documentation Product Specification
Design Files Netlist
Example Design Not Provided
Test Bench Not Provided
Constraints File N/A
Simulation
Model
Verilog, VHDL
Tested Design Tools
Design Entry
Tools
CORE Generator 13.1
Simulation
Mentor Graphics ModelSim 6.6d,
Cadence Incisive Enterprise
Simulator (IES) 10.2,
Synopsys VCS and VCS MX 2010.06,
ISIM 13.1
Synthesis Tools Not Provided
Support
Provided by Xilinx, Inc.