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Altera_Forum
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12 years ago

How to cast a large std_logic_vector to an array of smaller ones?

Hi again, For my project, I've defined a custom data type which actually is an array of 16 8-bit std_logic_vectors: TYPE census_line IS ARRAY(0 TO 15) OF std_logic_vector(7 downto 0); ...
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12 years ago

The function just maps the two different data types, it uses zero resources.

As you have determined, the difference was in what your hardware was doing with those data types :)

Cheers,

Dave