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Can I read/access 16 bit vector data as two 8 bits in Systemverilog?

Altera_Forum
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‎06-26-2015 11:49 AM
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My external I/F to embedded SRAM is 16 bit. So I am clubbing two 8 bits and loading to embedded RAM(declared as 16 bit wide data ). Can I access as two 8 bits?

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Altera_Forum
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‎06-26-2015 05:03 PM
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Yes. Just access the specific bit vectors. 

 

IE 

 

assign lowbyte_c = word[7:0]; 

assign highbyte_c = word[15:8]; 

 

 

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