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8 years ago

"Create symbol file" changes "character" into "Enumerated", Modelsim does not accept

Hello, I made a VDHL component: entity ent_ser_tx is generic( parity : character:='E' ); ... It compiles in Quartus and Quartus made a symbol file out of it. Quartu...
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8 years ago

I am using it to define the parity settings of a small UART I built. 'E' means parity even, 'O' means odd and 'N' means none.

Noting prevents me from using "E" of course.

The Uart is part of a Profibus DP library for a S7-PLC I am working on.

At low baud rates the lib works on an Arduino (prototype).

For high baud rates I will use an FPGA.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilngtisqosk