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14 years ago

'Illegal directional connection'error in Quartus 8.0

Hi all. Recently I compile a project in Quartus 8.0, it comes out the errors: Error: Illegal directional connection from the node "WPI_MODEL:inst|AnalogFault:I52|data_out[2]" to the pin "XD[...
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14 years ago

you cant compile it directly into a port map.

data<= data_o when (enable_condition) else (others=>'z')

data would the the top level I/O, with data_o being a temporary signal inside the architecture.