and bitwise operation on std_logic_vector bits

[Hannes]

Hello,

I am relatively new to VHDL.

I search for a command to realize a Boolean OR operation on all bits of
a std_logic_vector in a compact way.

example:

signal a : std_logic vector (3 downto 0);
signal b : std_logic;

b <= a(0) or a(1) or a(2) or a(3);

this solution works fine with four bits, but with larger vectors it is
not very comfortable.
Do somebody have an idea?

Regards

Hannes

[HT-Lab]

VHDL2008 supports reduction operators,

b<= OR a;

Hans
www.ht-lab.com

"Hannes" wrote in message news:8rt198...@mid.dfncis.de...

[Hannes]

Thank you,

regards

Hannes

[backhus]

On 14 Feb., 18:51, Hannes <"h.mcchoc"@gmx.de> wrote:
> Thank you,
>
> regards
>
> Hannes
>
> On 02/14/2011 05:43 PM, HT-Lab wrote:
>
> > VHDL2008 supports reduction operators,
>
> > b<= OR a;
>
> > Hans
> >www.ht-lab.com
>

> > "Hannes"  wrote in messagenews:8rt198...@mid.dfncis.de...

> > Hello,
>
> > I am relatively new to VHDL.
>
> > I search for a command to realize a Boolean OR operation on all bits of
> > a std_logic_vector in a compact way.
>
> > example:
>
> > signal a : std_logic vector (3 downto 0);
> > signal b : std_logic;
>
> > b <= a(0) or a(1) or a(2) or a(3);
>
> > this solution works fine with four bits, but with larger vectors it is
> > not very comfortable.
> > Do somebody have an idea?
>
> > Regards
>
> > Hannes
>
>

Hi,
nice tip for the future, when all tools finally support VHDL 2008.
For now, you can find reduce-functions in std_logic_misc.
e.g.
function AND_REDUCE(ARG: STD_LOGIC_VECTOR) return UX01;
function NAND_REDUCE(ARG: STD_LOGIC_VECTOR) return UX01;
function OR_REDUCE(ARG: STD_LOGIC_VECTOR) return UX01;
function NOR_REDUCE(ARG: STD_LOGIC_VECTOR) return UX01;
function XOR_REDUCE(ARG: STD_LOGIC_VECTOR) return UX01;
function XNOR_REDUCE(ARG: STD_LOGIC_VECTOR) return UX01;

function AND_REDUCE(ARG: STD_ULOGIC_VECTOR) return UX01;
function NAND_REDUCE(ARG: STD_ULOGIC_VECTOR) return UX01;
function OR_REDUCE(ARG: STD_ULOGIC_VECTOR) return UX01;
function NOR_REDUCE(ARG: STD_ULOGIC_VECTOR) return UX01;
function XOR_REDUCE(ARG: STD_ULOGIC_VECTOR) return UX01;
function XNOR_REDUCE(ARG: STD_ULOGIC_VECTOR) return UX01;

Have a nice synthesis
Eilert

[Thomas Stanka]

On 14 Feb., 16:50, Hannes <"h.mcchoc"@gmx.de> wrote:

> signal a : std_logic vector (3 downto 0);
> signal b : std_logic;
>
> b <= a(0) or a(1) or a(2) or a(3);

beside the defined reduce functions(see other post in this thread) you
could use a for-loop as generic solution to do bitwise reduction for
any function.

for i in a'range loop
b_var := b_var or a(i);
c_var := my_function(c_var, a(i));
end loop

bye Thomas

[Andy]

On Feb 15, 8:59 am, Thomas Stanka <usenet_nospam_va...@stanka-web.de>
wrote:

Don't forget to initialize b_var before entering the loop!

Depending on the arbitrary function, the initialization value may
differ. Hint: initialize it to first bit of a() and skip that bit in
the loop.

Andy

[Paul Uiterlinden]

Hannes wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am relatively new to VHDL.
>
> I search for a command to realize a Boolean OR operation on all bits of
> a std_logic_vector in a compact way.
>
> example:
>
> signal a : std_logic vector (3 downto 0);
> signal b : std_logic;
>
> b <= a(0) or a(1) or a(2) or a(3);

b <= '0' WHEN a = (a'range => '0') ELSE '1';

Caveat: it does not handle weak values such as 'L' and 'H'. If that is a
concern, you can use:

b <= '0' WHEN to_x01(a) = (a'range => '0') ELSE '1';

Function to_x01 is defined in ieee.std_logic_1164.

--
Paul Uiterlinden
www.aimvalley.nl
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