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Er7Cho1gU
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3 years ago

Initial value setting errir

Hello:

I'm new in verilog. Hopping that it's not a very stupid problem.

I'm tring to buid a FSM system using register "state" to perform the state now. There is no error hint or any functional problem on FSM insted of the initial problem on reg "state". The waveform shows that reg "state" keeping high at the begining, untill the stop signal arrives. Alought I had setting the initial value at begin, I can't fix it and I have no idea what could I do. Hopping that someone can help me.

Here is my code:

module state(start,stop,state);
input start,stop;
output reg state;

initial state = 1'b0;

always@(posedge start or posedge stop)begin
if(start == 1) state = 1;
else if(stop == 1) state = 0;
else state = state;
end
endmodule

4 Replies

  • sstrell's avatar
    sstrell
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    3 years ago

    Your waveform does not show what you are saying in your post. I just see state as unknown or don't care throughout the sim.

    If you are really trying to build an FSM, this is not the way to do it. You need two processes: one that is usually a clocked process (you have no clock here) that handles state transitions, usually based on input signals or the current state and one process that handles what the outputs should be when in a particular state. It's unclear what you're trying to do here.

  • ak6dn's avatar
    ak6dn
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    3 years ago

    I agree with @sstrell

    For reference, here is what I see running your code ...

    module test;

    initial
	begin
	$timeformat(-9, 0, "ns", 12);
	$dumpfile("test.vcd");
	$dumpvars(2,test);
	end

    reg start = 0;
    reg	stop = 0;
    wire state;

    initial
	begin
	#1000 start = 1;
	#100  start = 0;
	#300  stop = 1;
	#100  stop = 0;
	#500  $write("\n");
	$finish;
	end

    always @(start or stop or state)
	begin
	$write("%t start=%b stop=%b state=%b\n", $time, start, stop, state);
	end

    state u1 (start, stop, state);

endmodule // test

module state (start,stop,state);
    input start, stop;
    output reg state;

    initial state = 1'b0;

    always@(posedge start or posedge stop)begin
    if(start == 1) state = 1;
    else if(stop == 1) state = 0;
    else state = state;
    end

endmodule

    and the result ...

    GPLCVER_2.12a of 05/16/07 (Cygwin32).
Copyright (c) 1991-2007 Pragmatic C Software Corp.
  All Rights reserved.  Licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
  See the 'COPYING' file for details.  NO WARRANTY provided.
Today is Wed Oct 12 11:17:09 2022.
Compiling source file "./test.v"
Highest level modules:
test

         0ns start=0 stop=0 state=0
      1000ns start=1 stop=0 state=0
      1000ns start=1 stop=0 state=1
      1100ns start=0 stop=0 state=1
      1400ns start=0 stop=1 state=1
      1400ns start=0 stop=1 state=0
      1500ns start=0 stop=0 state=0

Halted at location **./test.v(24) time 2000 from call to $finish.
  • SyafieqS's avatar
    SyafieqS
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    3 years ago

    Hi Lin,


    May I know if previous reply able to solve you issue?


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    SyafieqS
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    3 years ago

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