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11 years ago

Need advice about coding style

Hello I'm Alex and I am novice for VHDL coding. if my english awful pls forgive me. I trying to understand VHDL PROCESS statement. I try with 1bit full adder with carry save function in Quartus2 v...
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11 years ago

Functions are not used for synchronous description because they have to be called from a sequential context (like a process). Functions also complete in 0 time and cannot have any time associated with them.

Procedures can have time within them, but I highly recommend you stick with processes.