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11 years ago

Does Quartus support using a VHDL configuration as a top-level entity?

The question title says it all. I thought it would be pretty straightforward to do so, since Quartus already handles most of the configuration capabilities of VHDL, and this should be possible as spe...
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11 years ago

you still need logic_function as the top level, it must always be an entity at the top level to connect the pins. You then define the behaviour with the architecture, not the entity. so you would have multiple architectures for the same entity with different behaviours.

Honestly, configurations are hardly ever used. Many companies only allow 1 architecture per entity - if you want different behaviour define another entity.