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15 years ago

Connecting bus widths smaller than the port size

Dear Gurus, Apologies for what I'm about to ask but I can't find anything in the documentation thus far to explain what I need to do. I have a entity that has 8x8bit ports and reads thes...
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15 years ago

You need to split the [11..0] bus into [11..8] and [7..0] by setting the properties of the input ports. You may have to set the source to [11..8], [7..0] but I don't think so. I should work so long as the source has the appropriately numbered bits.