some basic questions about altera

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hi everone, i am new to altera, and i have some basic questions about altera 

1. if i use verilog, can quartus synthesis multipliation and division? 2. if i use VHDL, can quartus synthesis multipliation and division? 3. i find the altera synthesis cookbook.pdf, it contain a lot useful codes, does it have vhdl version?   thanks!

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You mean you have questions about quartus 

 1. 2. Yes of course ! You have just to write '*' or '/' :-). But kep in mind that divisions can consume lots of resources and maybe you have to pipeline. For division, you can also use LPM Division (see megawizard). A good advice : Divisions by a power of two are very very very very efficient ;-).

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Megafunction, not megawizard, is the correct term.

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--- Quote Start ---  Megafunction, not megawizard, is the correct term.  --- Quote End ---    Yes and since Quartus 14 the former Megawizard functionality is accessed through the IP Catalog.

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thanks! 

i got it!

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Hi, 

 Perhaps you can attend the online training course which provided by Altera as below: http://wl.altera.com/education/training/courses/odswbecome  Thank you

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hi, perhaps you can attend the online course provided by Altera which can gives you the basic skills to design with Altera FPGAs.

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https://www.altera.com/content/dam/altera-www/global/en_us/pdfs/literature/hb/qts/qts_qii51007.pdf

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Multipliers and dividers often get mapped to DSP blocks which run way faster than the lookup table logic. assign foo = a * b; or assign foo = a / b; work fine in Quartus. You can check the fitter resource summary to see if lookup tables or DSP embedded multiplier blocks are being used.