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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

Hi Tricky,

I understand that a configuration *has* pins, the same pins as the entity it configures.

The code in the example analyzes and elaborates without any problem, with the configuration as the top-level entity, in both ModelSim and GHDL. In ModelSim, I can see that it has the same pins as the entity it configures.

The problem with having several entities is that it would cause a lot of code duplication. I also hardly find any use for configurations, but in this case they would be a great help.

Thanks,