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16 years ago

Read from file in vhdl

Hi, I have a whole heap of bits I need to hard-code into my hardware. Instead of writing them directly into my vhdl code I was wanting to be able to load them into the code via a .dat file or s...
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16 years ago

Usually, constant data are read in at compile time from a *.hex or *.mif file to a ROM. *.hex has the advantage of working both in simulation and synthesis.