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What are the application areas of floating point numbers ?
1) Floating point numbers are used in PLL configuration were fractional values are required.
2) Processor,image processing & graphics applications mostly work on floating point numbers.
Vera/ NTB does not even have a real or a floating point type; forget about randomizing a floating point number. The workaround for this is to write your own floating point class, randomize the class and use it. System verilog has a real type which is used to represents a floating point number, but a real type cannot be randomized. The LRM does not support the randomization of real data types. Some time back when i was discussing about this with one of my friend he was telling me that system verilog committee was working on this, not sure how true this information is.
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But there is a way to generate random real numbers in Systemverilog.
reg sgn;
reg [10:0] exp;
reg [51:0] man;
real r_num;
initial
begin
repeat(5)
begin
sgn = $random;
exp = $random;
man = $random;
r_num = $bitstoreal({sgn,exp,man});
$display("r_num = %e",r_num);
end
end
Yes, the method you have suggested will work.But it is procedural randomization,it is not through the constraint solver randomization. You can not have a real type to be rand variable in system verilog.
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