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Altera_Forum
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17 years ago

Im not Sure if its the right place to post

I got Cyclone II FPGA starter Kit. I want to create an entity that will handle the seven segment in it in all my projects. something I can just add and it will automatically be assigned to the correc...
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Altera_Forum
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17 years ago

I am afaid you can't go that automated. You need to manually assign the pins. The kit itself is never visible to HDL.

Create your 7 segment entity, decide its functionality if you haven't got one ready-made then assign pins as appropriate.

You can connect switches to the input of your module so that it can be used all over your project for whatever purpose.

edit: some compilers accept pin attributes in code level