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7 years ago

System Verilog Pin Assignment Issues

Newbie question - Just bought my first FPGA and working through examples to understand design and coding. My first example using a block diagram and .v file worked fine. My next try was using a book ...
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7 years ago

The second picture looks like the manual for a particular development kit. Unless you are using that kit, pin locations need to be manually assigned to match how they are connected on your board. Pins like the MSEL pins are fixed hardware pins with fixed functions. They are not general purpose I/O (GPIO) (though some fixed hardware pins on some devices can be used as GPIO after device programming).

Which dev kit are you using?