Hi, all

I am doing a traffic light controller project with using DE2 board... 
the code I have is compiled perfectly, but when I use the DE2 board, it 
doesn't work properly... Some lights should be turned on when I switch 
on.. but for some reason it keeps having the same issues although I try 
on and on. So I asked the professor about the issue, and he said this is 
logic problem...

I hope you help me out. I attached the file of the code in case.

SJ Oh wrote:
> the code I have is compiled perfectly
I can write don some lines of VHDL tha compile rperfectly well, but the 
will do nonsens on the hardware. The debugger for VHDL is the funtional 
simulator.

> but for some reason it keeps having the same issues
Which ones?

One question:
How fast is your clock?

    elsif CLK'event and CLK = '1' then                -- how fast ....
      case traffic_light_controller is
        when GR =>
          if count < sec_5 then  
            traffic_light_controller <= GR;
            count <= Count+1;                         -- ... will count count up?
          else
            traffic_light_controller <= YR;
            count<=X"0";   --count is reset to zero
          end if;

Is it really 1Hz?



This is not the problem, but for me it is a major mistake:

type traffic_light_controller_type is (GR, RY, RR2, YR, RG, RR1);
signal traffic_light_controller: traffic_light_controller_type;


traffic_light_controller_machine: process (CLK,CLR)
begin
    if CLR='1' then  
      traffic_light_controller <= GR;
    elsif CLK'event and CLK = '1' then
      case traffic_light_controller is
        when GR =>

        when YR =>

        when RR1 =>

        when RG =>
  
        when RY =>

        when RR2 =>

        when others =>   -- there are no remaining other states !!!!!!
         
      end case;

when others is not necessary when all of the possible states are used. 
The signal traffic_light_controller has only 6 states and each of them 
is explicitly used, so there are no "others" remaining!