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Foundation XVHDL: How to use Bidirectional I/O
Record #1374
Product Family: Software
Product Line: Metamor
Product Part: Foundation XVHDL
Problem Title:
Foundation XVHDL: How to use Bidirectional I/O
Problem Description:
Urgency: Standard
General Description:
Bidirectional I/O signals can be described behaviorally in
the VHDL code by using an 'inout' port in the entity and with
the output described as tri-statable in the architecture.
XVHDL will infer the appropriate types of I/O components.
Please note that with the XVHDL compiler, you must describe the
entire bidirectional pin, including output tristate, in the
top-level VHDL file. For more information on this topic,
please see (Xilinx Solution 2591).
Solution 1:
--Example of behavioral description of bidirectional I/O
--Note that in this example the output is both tri-stated
--and registered. An output flip-flop with tri-state enable
--(OFDT) will be inferred.
library IEEE;
use IEEE.std_logic_1164.all;
entity BIDIR is
port (DATA: inout std_logic;
NOT_DATA: out std_logic;
CLK, A, B: in std_logic;
ENABLE: in std_logic);
end BIDIR;
architecture INVERT of BIDIR is
signal IN1: std_logic;
signal OUT1: std_logic;
begin
IN1 <= A and B;
process (CLK)
begin
if CLK'event and CLK='1' then --CLK rising edge
OUT1 <= IN1;
end if;
end process;
--Tri-state buffer
DATA <= (OUT1) when ENABLE='1' else 'Z';
NOT_DATA <= not DATA;
end INVERT;
-- This example describes 4-bit wide tri-stated I/O bus.
library IEEE;
use IEEE.std_logic_1164.all;
entity BIDIR2 is
port (DATA: inout std_logic_vector (3 downto 0);
NOT_DATA: out std_logic_vector (3 downto 0);
A, B : in std_logic_vector (3 downto 0);
CLK : in std_logic;
ENABLE: in std_logic);
end BIDIR2;
architecture bidi_bus of BIDIR2 is
signal IN1: std_logic_vector (3 downto 0);
signal OUT1: std_logic_vector (3 downto 0);
begin
IN1 <= A and B;
process (CLK)
begin
if CLK'event and CLK='1' then --CLK rising edge
OUT1 <= IN1;
end if;
end process;
--Tri-state buffer
DATA <= (OUT1) when ENABLE='1' else "ZZZZ";
NOT_DATA <= not DATA;
end bidi_bus;
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