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12 years ago

Synthesis error in VHDL process

Hi,

I am trying to implement clock synchronizer and clock divider in the following piece of VHDL code. The clocks(clk_rx and clk_tx) should synchronize at the rising and falling edges of 'RX' signal on the bus. I can simulate the following in Modelsim but it is not synthesizable in ISE since i am using " RX'EVENT ". Could any one suggest an alternative for this? (vhdl or verilog)

-------------------------------------------- CLOCK DIVIDER----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

PROCESS (CLK_I, RX)

BEGIN

IF (RX'EVENT) THEN

clk_cnt <= to_unsigned(0,clk_cnt'LENGTH);

ELSIF (CLK_I'EVENT AND CLK_I = '1') THEN

IF clk_cnt >2499 THEN

clk_cnt <= to_unsigned(0,clk_cnt'LENGTH);

ELSE

clk_cnt <= clk_cnt + 1;

END IF;

END IF;

END PROCESS;

clk_rx <= '1' WHEN clk_cnt = 1250 ELSE '0'; -----clk_rx=1 only at the half of the counter period----------clk enable

clk_tx <= '1' WHEN clk_cnt = 2499 ELSE '0';

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    Altera_Forum
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    you cant detect both edges of the RX signal, you are only allowed to detect a single rising or falling edge, and us it as the clock - not in addition to another clock.

    What is RX? is it really a clock or some other signal? usually you would create an edge detector by comparing a registered version of a signal to the signal itself.

    It simulates fine because lots of VHDL works fine in simulation but is no use for synthesis.
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    Thanks for the reply. RX is the receiver pin. I am implementing a protocol similar to CAN. The module is connected to wishbone bus. So CLK_I is wishbone clock.

    The specification says I should synchronize to both edges of RX. I have changed the code little bit to compare the registered version of RX. Is this what you mean?

    PROCESS (CLK_I)

    BEGIN

    IF (CLK_I'EVENT AND CLK_I = '1') THEN

    tmp_RX <= RX;

    IF (RX /= tmp_RX) THEN

    clk_cnt <= to_unsigned(0,clk_cnt'LENGTH);

    ELSIF clk_cnt >2499 THEN

    clk_cnt <= to_unsigned(0,clk_cnt'LENGTH);

    ELSE

    clk_cnt <= clk_cnt + 1;

    END IF;

    END IF;

    END PROCESS;