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10 years ago

Defining an array of bytes with a dynamically allocated size

Hello, Can anyone tell me how to define an output to an entity, which is an array of bytes and has a size specified by a generic parameter. I have written a code snippet below which doesn't wor...
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10 years ago

arrays can be defined in a package without a length (as long as the "internal" arrays are all length defined pre VHDL2008)

type TArray is array(integer range <>) of unsigned(7 downto 0) ;

and then in the entitiy 


entity My_entity is
        generic (No_of_Bytes : integer := 5);
        port (Entity_output : out TArray(No_of_Bytes-1 downto 0);
    end entity;