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Altera_Forum
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8 years ago

Verilog down counter checking for carry

Hi, this is so basic I'm embarrassed to ask but half an hour googling did not find the answer so here goes. Conventional wisdom says down counters are most efficient way to implement for e...
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8 years ago

This seems way over complicated for what you want to do. Just do an up counter and when a certain bit goes high, you reset the counter. I don't understand how you would not "know" the counter size in bits and why doing a bit check is "ugly".