VHDL comparison

Altera_Forum · ‎10-13-2011

Hi all,

I'd like to write a limiter:

1. Input/output are 16 bit signed number

2. If input is -32768 then output is limited by -32767, otherwise the output is just bypass of the input.

I wrote a code as follow:

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library ieee;

use ieee.std_logic_1164.all;

entity numLimiter16 is

port(

clk: in std_logic;

data_in: in std_logic_vector(15 downto 0);

data_out: out std_logic_vector(15 downto 0)

);

end numLimiter16;

architecture rtl of numLimiter16 is

signal tmp : std_logic_vector(15 downto 0);

begin

process

begin

if (clk'event and clk='1') then

data_out <= "1000_0000_0000_0001" when (tmp = "1000_0000_0000_0000") else tmp;

end if;

end process;

tmp <= data_in;

end rtl;

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When I compile the code I met the error message:

Error (10500): VHDL syntax error at numLimiter16.vhd(21) near text "when"; expecting ";"

Could you point out which one do I have to correct?

Thanks!

Altera_Forum · ‎10-13-2011

Try this:


process(clk)
  begin
    if rising_edge(clk) then
      if (data_in = X"8000") then
        data_out <= X"8001";
      else
        data_out <= data_in;
      end if;
  end if;
end process;

Cheers,

Dave

Altera_Forum · ‎10-13-2011

Thanks Dave, works great!