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17 years ago

Quartus II Initalization Problem...

In the code below, the num variable is initialized to 0. It basically gives an error saying it is stuck in the while loop. When I explicity state that num is 0 inside begin of the process, it works...
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17 years ago

Maybe you can also just add a range to the integer declaration, this would tell quartus which values it can expect. It is always a good idea to constrain integers that way in a design if you want to use it in hardware. 

variable num: INTEGER range 0 to 5 := 0;

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