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10 years agoentity problem/errors with easy counter
Hello guys,
I am new to VHDL, but I am having some problem with my entitiy creation. The design below counts the number of leading zeros in a binary vector, starting from the left end. But i am not able to compile my file at all thats why I need your help. This is the error message I got: Error (10500): VHDL syntax error at zero_counter.vhd(5) near text "ENTITY"; expecting "(", or "'", or "." ------------------------------------------------------------------ LIBRARY ieee; USE ieee.std_logic_1164.all; USE ieee.numeric_std.all ENTITY zero_counter IS -- error message at this point GENERIC (WID: Integer :=8; Minval: unsigned:="0000_0000" ); PORT(data: IN STD_LOGIC_VECTOR(WID-1 downto 0); output: OUT STD_LOGIC_VECTOR(WID-1 downto 0) ); END zero_counter; ARCHITECTURE behavior OF zero_counter IS BEGIN PROCESS (data) VARIABLE count: unsigned (0 to WID-1); BEGIN count := Minval; FOR i IN 0 to Wid-1 LOOP CASE data(i) IS WHEN '0' => count := count + 1; -- data(i)='0' , count++ WHEN OTHERS => NEXT; --jump to next iteration END CASE; END LOOP; output <= std_logic_vector(count); END PROCESS; END behavior; ------------------------------- I already tryed to realize it without the generic block, but its all the same. I am using Quartus 13.1 Can someone help me?