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altera quartus support for real data

Altera_Forum
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‎05-12-2017 04:08 AM
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How to solve this error while compiling in altera quartus II 

 

Error (10172): Verilog HDL unsupported feature error : real variable data type values are not supported 

 

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Altera_Forum
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‎05-12-2017 04:16 AM
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Convert your data to (scaled) integer, or design your own floating point data processing blocks.

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Altera_Forum
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‎05-12-2017 07:36 AM
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You cannot use real data type, because it has no meaning for hardware.  

Altera provides floating point IP blocks, but your variables carrying them must be reg data type. 

 

You can get the user guide here: 

https://www.altera.com/en_us/pdfs/literature/ug/ug_altfp_mfug.pdf
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