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13 years ago

Coding style to minimize combinational path delay?

I'm tuning my logic to meet timing. I have a long continuous assignment statement that outputs a signal based on the current state in my FSM. The below implementation results in a long mux chain. Is ...
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13 years ago

I can't see the priority encoder point for the present code. As long as the IF conditions are mutually exclusive (of course they are!) there's no difference between the IF THEN ELSE chain and a case construct. Both can be expected to end up in the same gate level netlist. The actual effort depends however on the chosen state encoding.