Re: Ballot comment: multiplication


Subject: Re: Ballot comment: multiplication
From: John Michael Williams (jwill@AstraGate.net)
Date: Mon Jul 15 2002 - 13:52:46 PDT


Hi Bhasker.

Viewing multiplication as repeated additions,
I think restriction of the second operand
to be an integer representation would make sense.

Is there any question of multiplication of reals
involved?

-- 
                         John
                     jwill@AstraGate.net
                     John Michael Williams

Jbhasker7@aol.com wrote: > > Dear WG member: > > One balloter has indicated that for the multiplication operator, there is no > need to restrict the second operand to be a power of 2. > > I tend to agree with this, as I believe > most synthesis tools support A * B, where A and B are both variables. > > I would like to know your views on this. > > - bhasker



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