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14 years ago

Will Quartus support generic types?

Hi there, I wonder if anyone has an idea how to achieve Generic Types, i.e., something like: package fifo_pkg is generic (type element_type); type fifo_in_type is record data_...
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14 years ago

Yes, that apparently doesn't work with recent Quartus versions. There's still an option to specify a std_logic_vector of maximum size, but not to use all bits. The unused bits will be ignored in synthesis, but you possibly get some warnings. I'm doing similar by using not fully populated arrays.