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13 years ago

Adding and resizing in one step

Hi, Is there a way to add two unsigned numbers and extract only the x most significant bits from it in one step? I want something like this: sum <= resize(number1 + number2,4) In...
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13 years ago

I forget if VHDL has a right shift operator but if it does you could use that to take the 8 bit value and only assign the upper 4 bits to the destination.

What Tricky said is how I typically do this in verilog even though >> would get the job done.