can Quartus 18.1 synthesize real number?

[DNguy4]

Hi,

Many people told me that FPGA cannot synthesize real numbers but I try real number on Quartus 18.1 Pro on Arria10 and it works. At the same time, i cannot find official document from Intel to clarify this. Any idea if 18.1 can officially synthesize real number? any exception at all?

Thanks

[AndyN]

By "real" do you mean a single precision floating point number?

[KhaiChein_Y_Intel]

You may refer to

Verilog HDL Synthesis Support

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/programmable/quartushelp/current/index.htm#hdl/vlog/vlog_list_support_d1625e85.htm

>Integers and Times are supported. Reals and Realtimes are not supported.

SystemVerilog Synthesis Support

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/programmable/quartushelp/current/index.htm#hdl/vlog/vlog_list_sys_vlog.htm

>real and shortreal data types are supported for parameters

VHDL Synthesis Support 

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/programmable/quartushelp/current/index.htm#hdl/vhdl/vhdl_list_support_d1537e465.htm