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c-code function into VHDL?
von Fito (Guest)

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i have to calculates lots of constants, dependant only of 1 generic 
value. I can do that in C or in Octave (Matlab-like language).

I don know how to load those constants, i've been doing it "by hand" in 
the VHDL header, first calculating them, and them putting them into 
matrixes in an array type. Can i implement the c-code (or matlab code) 
into the vhdl code like some kind of function? Have in mind that i'm not 
asking for sinthetizing this secuential code for calculation, i'm just 
looking for the ability to know the number of components and length of 
signals by every "layer" in my design.

Thanks a lot

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Re: c-code function into VHDL?
von Basti Sch. (Guest)

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Hi Fito,
you might need to store your constants in a textfile and overwrite your 
constants(generics) with this values. Look for the textIO package.

Regards

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Re: c-code function into VHDL?
von Nikolaos K. (Company: http://www.nkavvadias.com) (nikolaos_k)

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Hi Fito

check out my solution:

http://www.nkavvadias.com/hercules/

and for free testing:

http://www.nkavvadias.com/cgi-bin/herc.cgi

These links provide access to the HercuLeS high-level synthesis tool. So 
you can try automatically synthesizing your C code to VHDL with Herc.

Best regards
Nikolaos Kavvadias
Research Scientist

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Re: c-code function into VHDL?
von Thomas R. (Company: abaxor engineering) (abaxor)

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Fito wrote:
> i have to calculates lots of constants, dependant only of 1 generic
> value. I can do that in C or in Octave (Matlab-like language).

Write a function in C/Octave, which generates a valid VHDL file, 
containing your constants. Add this file to your project.

Tom

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Re: c-code function into VHDL?
von Morbus (Guest)

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Maybe myHDL (http://www.myhdl.org/doku.php) could solve your problem, 
but it might be quite a change.
For simulation, some people have done interesting stuff with the GHDL 
simulator by interfacing it with C routines 
(http://www.fpgarelated.com/showarticle/20.php). But not sure if that 
helps, as you're speaking of constants. I'm just using those extensions 
to pull configuration values out of .INI files.

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Re: c-code function into VHDL?
von Hocko (Guest)

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once, there used to be a prog named "c to vhdl" I got from the internet

i never tried

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