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9 years ago

Hierarchical reference to custom type

I have a state machine defined with the following lines in one of my source files: type SM_STATES is (idle, state1, state2, state3, state4); signal current_state : SM_STATES; In my testbenc...
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9 years ago

Ive just looked it up - external names can only fetch constants, shared variables and signals. So you need to make the type declaration visible by putting it in a package.