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KenCiszewski
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1 year ago

Compiling VHLD file in quartus

I have been learning about quartus using https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/projects/from-vhdl-code-to-real-hardware-designing-a-finite-state-machine/. There's a VHDL file that I compiled in quartus ...
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FvM
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1 year ago
Hi,
forgot to tell the error messages.
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1 year ago

The original VHDL file compiles without problems in Quartus 13.1. It should be however noted, that the default "one-hot" state encoding leads to a very inefficient counter implementation in 27 logic elements. Specifying sequential encoding, e.g. using synthesis attribute reduces resource utilization to 6 LE.