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MShai9
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6 years ago

Getting an error :object "led" on left-hand side of assignment must have a variable data type

module test (clk,led); input clk; output led; reg [7:0] counter; always@(posedge clk) begin if (counter < 100) counter <= counter +1; else counter <= 0; end always @ (counter) begin ...
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a_x_h_75
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6 years ago

You need to declare 'led' as a reg, in the same way you've declared counter. Declaring it as an output to the module isn't enough (as it is in other languages).

You can either add:

reg led;

or change the output declaration to:

output reg led;

Cheers,

Alex