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9 years ago

integer'image(some_int) results in "Expression is not constant" error

What is the correct way to convert an always changing integer variable to a string (to be displayed on a VGA monitor)? I have a series of if statements that take care of padding (so that the resultin...
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9 years ago

The string type is not suitable for synthesis - it doesnt really have much meaning in hardware, it would be used more for debugging in simulation.

What are you doing with the string? do you have some driver that can covert the characters in the string to some form of pixel matrix?