gate level modelling of fir filter in verilog

[snehajose]

hi everyone,
my seminar uses an FIR filter that has reduced number of multipliers. so my code need to consider the structure. do i need to code it in gate level?
the filter coeffficients obtained from matlab is 64 bit. how can i convert it to lower bits or how can i directly use them as signed numbers in verilog?
expecting your help and thanking you....

[FvM]

The problem hasn't to do with gate level, I think. It's just about fixed point arithmetic. Normally, you'll want to simulate the effect of coefficient length reduction in Matlab and define the exact fixed point filter represention for the final implementation.