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13 years ago

Dealing with single bit unsigned types

Hi guys, I started out using std_logic and std_logic_vectors but whenever I would look up things about converting those to integers and back, everything I read said to use numeric_std's unsigned and ...
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13 years ago

theres nothing wrong with using std_logic and std_logic_vectors. Clocks and resets and busses of bits that are not numbers should use them (or any other single bit signals). An unsigned is just an array of std_logic anyway.

Unsigned should be used when you need to do arithmatic.