When you want a one of eight decoder, are you tired of typing in:
with Phase_Ctr select Phase
Keystroke saving w/ IEEE.Numeric_Std
Mar 28, 2006
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Thats pretty cool as long as synthesis tool correctly translates it.!!!! I have been using this function for indexing the std_logic arrays and as memory pointers.....
Better to have 'Phase_Ctr' defined as a natural instead of a std_logic_vector since that is how it is being used i.e. signal Phase_Ctr: natural range 0 to 7;
Then you have the even less cluttered
Phase When you want a one of eight decoder, are you tired of typing in:
+1 for natural type on phase_ctr!
Inside a process (sequential statements):
phase '0'); -- sequential statements phase(phase_ctr)
Doh! This is great. (Sometimes I scare myself by how I miss the simplest things). Thanks Andy.
Any more examples of keystroke/eye/paper savers out there?
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