this is a vhdl code to implement the states of a washing machine with four states namely off, wash, rinse and dry. but have an error when i select the simulation option . please help correct code
So, there are many Bugs: 1. Don't write 10ns or 60sec, that causes Warnings, write 10 ns and 60 sec. 2. outstate is 4 Bits wird, but you assign two Bits outstate <= "00"; 3. In machcontroller you use wait Statements, this will not be synthesizable. If you have to wait, then use an counter and count so many clocks till the time has passed. 4. In testBench many/all signals have no default value. If there is no default value, a function like NOT cannot invert the signal because it is unknown. 5. In testBench you have a signal named clock, but it does not toggle and has no dafault value. Use: signal clock: std_logic:='0'; begin clock <= not clock after 5 ns; to create an 100 MHz Clock. 6. In testBench strButton is assigned to strSgnl and strSgnl is just at one time set to '1' but it is never again set to '0'. So it is like the strButton is pressed and pushed down for ever. 7. reset is not used. 8. The signals offSgnl, washSgnl, rinseSgnl and drySgnl are assigned, but never used because they are not connected to the machcontroller. So ... please show/describe what you intend to do.
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Klakx wrote: > Usually the error description is very helpful [VRFC 10-1360]Signal cannot be unconstrained [XSIM 43-3321] static elaboration of top level VHDL design unit test bench in library work failed
Hello Jad, i got your message. I will answer here. Yes, i see you have 4 states. But you have to define - what has to be done in each state? - what has to happen in each state, that the statemachine should transit to another state? Jad F. wrote: > [VRFC 10-1360]Signal cannot be unconstrained > [XSIM 43-3321] static elaboration of top level VHDL design unit test > bench in library work failed Right, you have at least to fix the bugs listed above.
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Hello Jad, i got your message. I will answer here. Yes, i mentioned counter because you used when off =>outstate <= "00"; -- off state wait for 60 sec; for example. A wait statement cannot be synthesized to FPGA logic. There is no such thing as time in an FPGA. If you want to wait for 60 seconds, then you have to count so high till the time has passed. Example: You have an 100 MHz Clock. Then every clock cycle has a 10 ns duration. One step of the counter takes 10 ns. If you want to wait for 60 seconts, you have to divede that by 10 ns and get 6000000000. So the counter has to count so many times. 6000000000 is 101100101101000001011110000000000 in binary, whis has 33 digits. So you may use an unsigned(32 downto 0) for the counter. Because the counter starts at zero and not at one, you only have to count up to 5999999999. Such a counter looks like this: process (clock) begin if rising_edge(clock) then if startcount = '1' then counter <= (others => '0'); else if counter < 5999999999 then counter <= counter +1; else -- finish! transit to next FSM state or do what you like, you have waited for 60 seconds. end if; end if; end if; end process; Sure, you can write an extra component for the counter, but for such little code an extra component is too much extra work. Also if you write the counter in a nice way, then you can reuse this one counter for every wait state in your FSM.
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