Hello Im trying to write the behavioral code for a serial 16 bit multiplier. However, my output is always 0 for some reason. I used the debugging feature in vcs and apparently my R1,R2,R3 values are not being updated by the A values. Below are my source code and test bench:
library ieee; use ieee.std_logic_1164.all; use ieee.std_logic_arith.all; entity SerialMultiplier1 is port(A,B: IN std_logic_vector(15 downto 0); reset: IN std_logic; X: OUT std_logic_vector(31 downto 0)); end SerialMultiplier1; architecture behavior of SerialMultiplier1 is signal R1,R2,R3: std_logic_vector(31 downto 0) := (others => '0'); begin process(reset) begin if reset='1' then X <= (others => '0'); end if; end process; process(A,B) begin for i in 0 to 31 loop if i = 0 then if B(i) = '1' then R1(15+i downto i) <= A(15 downto 0); else R1(15+i downto i) <= (others => '0'); end if; X(i) <= R1(i); elsif (i>0 and i<16) then if B(i) = '1' then R2(15+i downto i) <= A(15 downto 0); else R2(15+i downto i) <= (others => '0'); end if; R3 <= unsigned(R1) + unsigned(R2); X(i) <= R3(i); R1 <= R3; R2 <= (others => '0'); else X(i) <= R3(i); end if; end loop; end process; end behavior; |
library ieee; use ieee.std_logic_1164.all; use ieee.std_logic_arith.all; entity tb_SerialMultiplier1 is end tb_SerialMultiplier1; architecture behavior of tb_SerialMultiplier1 is component SerialMultiplier1 port(A,B: IN std_logic_vector(15 downto 0); reset: IN std_logic; X: OUT std_logic_vector(31 downto 0)); end component; signal A,B: std_logic_vector(15 downto 0); signal reset: std_logic; signal X: std_logic_vector(31 downto 0); begin DUT: SerialMultiplier1 port map(A,B,reset,X); process begin wait for 0 ns; A<=x"0002";B<=x"0004";reset<='1'; wait for 10 ns; reset<='0'; wait for 10 ns; --A<=x"000B";B<=x"000A"; --wait for 10 ns; --A<=x"0111";B<=x"0011"; --wait for 10 ns; end process; end behavior; |
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1. With that loop in VHDL you don't generate serial hardware. Instead you get a parallel multiplier. 2. You will not get this VHDL code on real hardware, because the signal X is driven from two sources. A serial multiplier as I see it will need a clock, a shift register and an adder. Then with each clock the first operand is shifted one further and summed up, if the bit in the second operand is set. After 16 clock cycles the multiplication is done...
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Lothar Miller wrote: > A serial multiplier as I see it will need a clock, a shift register and > an adder. Then with each clock the first operand is shifted one further > and summed up, if the bit in the second operand is set. After 16 clock > cycles the multiplication is done... Is not. A 16 bits x 16 bits multiplication will lead to a 32 bits product which needs 32 clock. Furthermore 16 adders are needed. See http://www.abaxor.de/publications/diss/diss_reinemann.pdf page 29. It's in German. Tom
> Furthermore 16 adders are needed.
Or 16 clock cycles if you use 1 only adder.
Hi, I have managed to write the behavioral code for it successfully. However, I am find it difficult to write the structural code for it because using for-generate statements to use the FA and HA components (that is required) means we cannot use a process. But if we don't use a process, how can we clock it?
Omar Rashad wrote: > I am find it difficult to write the structural code for it because using > for-generate statements to use the FA and HA components (that is > required) means we cannot use a process. A multiplier usually does not need a clock at all. it can be implemented completly as a combinatorial description. So first you have to answer: do you need a clock at all? > But if we don't use a process, how can we clock it? This is a synthesizeable concurrent description of a clocked D-flipflop:
FF_Dout <= FF_Din when rising_edge(clk);
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BTW: doing VHDL with structural description is like drilling holes in steel with a wooden stick. Its just an old fashioned way to waste time... And doing VHDL without using a process is like driving a car without a gearbox or only in the first gear: nearly senseless... For any contemporary FPGA you write a multiplication this way:
result <= a*b; |
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