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11 years ago

Wire assignment in verilog

Hi All, When going through a reference design i encountered a particular type of wire assignment as follows. data[92-:8]=a; what does this part[92-:8] mean? is it actually 92:84 ie 92:(9...
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11 years ago

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You have it mostly correct, but it would actually be equivalent to data[92:85]. It means to include 8 bits total starting from data[92] and counting down. [92:84] would be 9 bits instead.

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Thanks for confirming and making it clear