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15 years ago

time in generic clause of entity for synthesis

Dear All, is it possible to use generic of type 'time' in an entity declaration which is used for synthesis? I'd like to use time specification as top-entity generic parameter, which is in the sub...
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15 years ago

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sorry. i've been talking about syntesis, but in fact I tried create a symbol block. This is where it crashes. (q9.0)

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Well that will be your problem.

The symbol creator is very basic and wont accept anything too exciting. It can only really cope with integers, signed/unsigned, std_logic(_vector) and boolean.

best to just stick in VHDL for your top level instantiations.