Combine/Map one bus onto another

Question

Hello,

Would someone be able to explain how to combine bits from two different buses?

Say I had two buses Source[23..0] and Sink[21..0] - I want to map a number of bits from Source onto specific bits from Sink so:

Source[5..0] drives Sink[5..0] and

Source[13..8] drives Sink[11..6] and

Source[22..16] drives Sink[17..12]

I cannot change Sink as its width and configuration must remain as they are for part of the design to work.

Is there any way to do this without connecting every signal through Wires?

Thanks

altera_forum · Answer

it sounds like you might be using a .bdf? you might just write a little HDL file, create a .bsf from the file, and instantiate it in your .bdf

altera_forum · Answer

Thanks thepancake, thats great!

altera_forum · Answer

cool. one of the .bdf experts might know the best way to build the bus using wires/buses, but i figured a couple lines of HDL is faster and easier

altera_forum · Answer

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Source[5..0] drives Sink[5..0] and

Source[13..8] drives Sink[11..6] and

Source[22..16] drives Sink[17..12]

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Assuming you want to do this in the block editor, you can use wire symbols (found in the symbol selector under primitives/buffer) for this. Despite the name, they work with buses too, so you can have Source[13..8] going into a wire symbol and Sink[11.6] going out.

altera_forum · Answer

Thanks rwestman,  didn't think of that, I got thrown off by the name.

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