Accumulator - 2022.1 English

The Xilinx® Accumulator block implements an adder or subtractor-based scaling accumulator.

The block's current input is accumulated with a scaled current stored value. The scale factor is a block parameter.

Block Interface

The block has an input b and an output q. The output must have the same width as the input data. The output will have the same arithmetic type and binary point position as the input. The output q is calculated as follows:

A subtractor-based accumulator replaces addition of the current input b(n) with subtraction.

Block Parameters

The block parameters dialog box can be invoked by double-clicking the icon in your Simulink® model.

Basic tab

Parameters specific to the Basic tab are as follows:

Operation

This determines whether the block is adder- or subtractor-based.

Fixed-Point Output Precision

Number of bits

specifies the bit location of the binary point of the output number, where bit zero is the least significant bit.

Overflow

Refer to the section Overflow and Quantization

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Feedback scaling

Specifies the feedback scale factor to be one of the following:

1, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, 1/32, 1/64, 1/128, or 1/256.

Optional Ports

Provide synchronous reset port

Activates an optional reset (rst) pin on the block. When the reset signal is asserted, the block goes back to its initial state. However, when a floating point accumulator is used, the output will be NAN during reset. The reset signal has precedence over the optional enable signal available on the block. The reset signal must run at a multiple of the block's sample rate. The signal driving the reset port must be Boolean.

Bypass Option on Reset

Reinitialize with input 'b'

When selected, the output of the accumulator is reset to the data on input port b. When not selected, the output of the accumulator is reset to zero. This option is available only when the block has a reset port. Using this option has clock speed implications if the accumulator is in a multirate system. In this case the accumulator is forced to run at the system rate because the clock enable (CE) signal driving the accumulator runs at the system rate, and the reset to input operation is a function of the CE signal.

Internal Precision tab

Parameters specific to the Internal Precision tab are as follows:

Floating Point Precision

Input MSB Max

The Most Significant Bit of the largest number that can be accepted.

Output MSB Max

The MSB of the largest result. It can be up to 54 bits greater than the Input MSB.

Output LSB Min

The Least Significant Bit of the smallest number that can be accepted. It is also the LSB of the accumulated result.

Implementation tab

Parameters specific to the Implementation tab are as follows:

Use behavioral HDL (otherwise use core)

The block is implemented using behavioral HDL. This gives the downstream logic synthesis tool maximum freedom to optimize for performance or area.

Implement using

Core logic can be implemented in Fabric or in a DSP48, if a DSP48 is available in the target device. The default is Fabric.

Other parameters used by this block are explained in the topic Common Options in Block Parameter Dialog Boxes.

The Accumulator block always has a latency of 1.

LogiCORE™ Documentation

Accumulator LogiCORE IP Product Guide (PG119)