SRL16's are fine for muxes that are relatively static. I wouldn't use them in a barrel shift used for floating point normalize or denormalize though, as it takes 16 clocks to change it. If you have that much time between samples and are that concerned about area, you should be doing bit or digit serial logic.
As l> > Actually, the xilinx structure can make a very efficient cross bar. One
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