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16 years ago

How do I accomplish string manipulation during synthesis?

Hello everyone and thanks in advance for your replies. Here's the situation. I coded up a fairly lengthy chuck of vhdl using std.textio.read and std.textio.write that parses up a couple of str...
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16 years ago

The problem is that Quartus wont parse textio functions during synthesis (I dont think it will have anything to do with loading files in any way unless its a mif or hex file, and thats only inside the altsynram megafunction). I know brand X will. It also completly ignores access types.

I think the only way round this for you will be to write a TCL script that generates the constants for you.

Other than that - good luck!