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16 years ago

New to VHDL. Help with errors

Can you tell me why im getting these errors for this code: LIBRARY ieee; USE ieee.std_logic_1164.all; USE ieee.std_logic_unsigned.all; ENTITY DAC2 IS PORT( hardwarecontrol: IN STD_LOG...
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16 years ago

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So it's not possible to start the process in an if statement?

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No. Procedural code (including if statements) have to go inside a process. Processes define code to be "executed" if any of the signals in the sensitivity list change. Outside of a process you can only have single signal assignments that are generated from combinatorial logic.