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13 years ago

Symbols pipe ( | ), colon ( : ), and underscore ( _ ) characters mean in naming...

What do the symbols pipe ( | ), colon ( : ), and underscore ( _ ) mean in the Quartus II naming mechanism. When I open the node window I am flooded with signals that have long names and they seem to...
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13 years ago

It doesn't directly mean anything. Synthesis manipulates your logic, and hence has to give it a different name so the user doesn't confuse it's behavior with a logical name in their design. Users generally don't add ~ in their names, but synthesis tools do(I believe Synplify does this too). So it's just a way to give it a different name.