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9 years ago

handling two dimensional array using vhdl

i have a two dimensional array in a text file. i want to read it from the text file and write it in another text file as a two dimensional array. i have tried using the code given below. but it writes only one column. how to write all the columns.

library std;

use std.textio.all; --include package textio.vhd

--entity declaration

entity filehandle is

end filehandle;

--architecture definition

architecture Behavioral of filehandle is

--period of clock,bit for indicating end of file.

signal clock,endoffile : bit := '0';

--data read from the file.

signal dataread : real;

--data to be saved into the output file.

signal datatosave : real;

--line number of the file read or written.

signal linenumber : integer:=1;

begin

clock <= not (clock) after 1 ns; --clock with time period 2 ns

--read process

reading :

process

file infile : text is in "bit8.txt"; --declare input file

variable inline : line; --line number declaration

variable dataread1 : real;

begin

wait until clock = '1' and clock'event;

if (not endfile(infile)) then --checking the "END OF FILE" is not reached.

readline(infile, inline); --reading a line from the file.

--reading the data from the line and putting it in a real type variable.

read(inline, dataread1);

dataread <=dataread1; --put the value available in variable in a signal.

else

endoffile <='1'; --set signal to tell end of file read file is reached.

end if;

end process reading;

--write process

writing :

process

file outfile : text is out "bit8_inv.txt"; --declare output file

variable outline : line; --line number declaration

begin

wait until clock = '0' and clock'event;

if(endoffile='0') then --if the file end is not reached.

--write(linenumber,value(real type),justified(side),field(width),digits(natural));

write(outline, dataread, right, 16, 12);

-- write line to external file.

writeline(outfile, outline);

linenumber <= linenumber + 1;

else

null;

end if;

end process writing;

end Behavioral;

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    Your code has no mention of a line length, so there is no way to know how many values to write onto each line.

    The write process also writes out every single value. You need to save the writeline() procedure until you have a complete line to write.