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12 years ago

Parametrically sized localparam assignment

I would like to be able to assign an array of localparams with some kind of static function. For example I don't want to have to do this: localparam SIZE = 3; typedef logic bar_t; lo...
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12 years ago

Thanks for the response. I tried your suggestion and I get this from Modelsim: 


** Error: /some/file.sv(427): (vlog-2118) The function 'makeFoo' is not a valid constant function.
** Error: /some/file.sv(427): Parameter value must be constant.

I'm currently running:

Model Technology ModelSim DE vsim 10.1 Simulator 2011.12 Dec 5 2011

which is clearly a bit old, so I'm not sure if that's part of the problem. I know that Modelsim (along with Quartus) does multi-pass static elaboration, but apparently it's having a problem with that here.