I have this codepiece http://pastebin.com/nLyHXp8h which is giving some problems.. I am getting a error message saying that it is getting looped more thank 64 times, which i do not understand how that even is possible, since I increment the check value inside the loop each time. I would be very glad if anyone could see where i am going wrong.
could the problem be that my conditions isn't constant?
John Mayer wrote: > could the problem be that my conditions isn't constant? No. The problem ist, that you think VHDL is a programming language like C. Let me tell you: it isn't. It is far, far away from C or Basic or something like that! Lets take this:
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You will not be able to get this on hardware. It is just a "combinatorial loop". Do you want to know more? Try that with google translator: http://www.lothar-miller.de/s9y/archives/42-Kombinatorische-Schleifen.html The whole coding style is completely software based (variables, functions...) and this will lead to nowhere in VHDL. Did you do the blinking LED (= "Heollo Wolrd!" of hardware) and a chasing light before this code? Pls attach your complete vhdl file here. then we can have a close look at it...
complete code: http://pastebin.com/Z4NxaeNd I've replaced the while loop with an if statement.. which seem to work. But for some reason i can when my pointer becomes larger than the size of my array, it just start pointing from the beginning, and continues?? How come?
John Mayer wrote: > complete code: > http://pastebin.com/Z4NxaeNd I will not read this that, because Lothar Miller wrote: > Pls attach your complete vhdl file here. then we can have a close look > at it... However... > How come? Your "problem" is well known and called "wrap around". Workaround: just don't try to access an index behind the last element.