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Altera_Forum
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17 years ago

Does QII support verilog string parameters?

I'm confused.. I admit to not being an expert on all things verilog (or anything in life for that mater), but I am trying to learn to parameterize a new module definition to expand its usefulne...
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Altera_Forum
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17 years ago

Duhhh... I was putting it in the wrong place .... should be defined this way:

--- Quote Start ---

module my_module (

input ...

output ...

);

parameter string my_name = "BOB" from {"BOB", "SAM"};

[...]

--- Quote End ---

Now I need to figure out how to restrict the module instantiation values to predefined values (that I support) and otherwise throw an error...

..dane