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17 years ago

Viewing variable values in VHDL

Hi, I am quite new to VHDL and Quartus II. I have coded a 16x8 RAM using VHDL in Quartus but I don't know how to check it because I cannot view the array variable where the data is stored in wa...
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17 years ago

You should be able to directly write to array. What happens to your array when Quartus later synthesizes(?) the code is that it will save the data in a register or in a memory. In the mega wizard you can auto generate vhdl-blocks that will be placed in a memory block on the fpga.

I'm not sure I'm making any sense now, a bit tired. I'll have a quick look at your code instead.

//Ola