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Altera_Forum
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14 years ago

Could anyone explain this line of code?

CTRL_REG <= to_unsigned(16#0003#,DATA_WIDTH) What does the 16#0003# mean? Thanks
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14 years ago

it means 0003 in a hexadecimal base. In VHDL you can specify an integer value as

base#value#
You can also add an exponent:
base#value#E+/-exp