Re: Xilinx 3s8000?

Mike Harrison wrote:
Presumably you could do it rather quicker using the S3's multiplier blocks.....

Good point, but then I'd be tied into a particular FPGA. The multipliers are very impressive however. If I ever get my design to fit on something, then I can start taking advantage of things like the built-in multipliers to speed things up. Lets see, 18x18->36 bits in less than 5 ns. For a 1024 bit multiply, it would take roughly 1,624 eighteen bit multiplies and a bunch of multi-precision additions, which translates into around 8 microseconds per 1024 bit word! Very impressive indeed.

Ron

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