Re-inventing the DSP Block
Everything in technology changes – evolves – improves.
First, we had 8-bit processors, then 16, then 32… now many of us are tapping the keys on 64-bit devices.
Nothing stays still for very long.
Why, then, have we lived for around a decade with very little change to the garden-variety 18×18 multipliers in our hardened FPGA DSP blocks. Except for a few minor improvements, those haven’t really progressed in years.
To paraphrase something Bill Gates apparently never really said: “Why would anybody ever need more than 18×18 bit multiplication?”
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