Quartus II Node Finder

Nov 20, 2003 1 Replies

Dear Sir or Madame,



attached you see a test project file.



After compiling the design I open the Node Finder. I use the following filter : Design entry (all names)



Why is the signal "vector_out" (entity test.vhd) (which is concurrently assigned by the registered signal "l_vector") and the corresponding port map signal (toplevel entity) "l_vector_out" shown to be combinatorial although they are registers? A change of the filter type does not change the result.



Why do these signals not appear as registers in the NodeFinder?



Thank you very much.



Kind regards



A. Vazquez



toplevel file



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library ieee;



use ieee.std_logic_1164.all; use ieee.std_logic_arith.all;



entity test_hierarch is port( clk_in : in std_logic; reset_in : in std_logic; invec : in std_logic_vector(3 downto 0); set : in std_logic_vector(3 downto 0); show : out std_logic ); end test_hierarch;


architecture rtl of test_hierarch is



component test is port( clk : in std_logic; reset : in std_logic; indelay : in std_logic_vector(3 downto 0); vector_out : out std_logic_vector(3 downto 0) ); end component;


-- local signals signal l_vector_out : std_logic_vector(3 downto 0);



begin



i1 : test port map ( clk => clk_in, reset => reset_in, indelay => invec, vector_out => l_vector_out );



process(reset_in, clk_in) begin if reset_in='1' then show


"vector_out" and "l_vector_out" are wires that are connected to the register "l_vector". Quartus considers wires to be combinational entities, even if they are electrically connected to the output of a register.

Subroto Datta Altera Corp.

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