In my digital electronics project I need to calculate dot product of two vectors a and b (256 length of each). Following the basic concept, I need to calculate \$ \sum_{k=1}^{256} a_kb_k \$. Each element of vectors is 4-bit binary number. This doesn't seems to a difficult task in verilog where I can implement this as in XILINX ISE.
sum=0;
for(i=1i=0,i<257i<256,i=i+1)
sum=sum+ \$a_ib_i \$
Furthur I need to implement this on FPGA. But here I got confused in two concept:
Do I need to write the module for 'full adder' and added the inputs previous sum and \$a_i b_i\$ bit by bit and store output in sum. Or simply xilinx will automatically implement the full adder during synthsize.
Is it valid to use for loop insted of writing always@(condition) beacause on FPGA we have clock as a control signal. Or in this case also xilinx itself will implement/control the for loop by clock signal.