Genericity of VHDL descriptions

By ben06x | Electronics | 17 Apr 2021

Through this article we want to describe two configurable components:

a multi-function operator, structurally described from an elementary cell
a FIFO that allows the communication of messages between two asynchronous processors.

1. Arithmetic operator

We want to implement an arithmetic operator with the following structure:

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We want this operator to be able to perform the following main operations:

the transfer of the operand A
the increment
the addition of the two operands
the addition with increment
the addition of the operand A with the complement to 1 from B
the subtraction B from A
the decrementation of A by 1.

This has been represented according to the following functional table:

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We describe the elementary cell of the arithmetic operator from an entity-architecture pair as follows:

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We describe the following test bench to allow us to validate our operator on the operations stated previously.

We obtain the following simulation:

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The result displayed on G corresponds well to our previous functional table.

2. The FIFO component

We wish to describe a data storage circuit of FIFO (First in, First out) type represented as follows:

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Datain: data entry to write to the FIFO
Dataout: value of the oldest unread value in the queue
R / W: represents the type of operation to be performed on the queue
enable: to authorize the operation
full: status indicator indicating whether the queue is full
empty: status indicator indicating whether the queue is empty

We thus seek to describe the following block diagram:

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We define the previous entity/architecture pair making it possible to describe the FIFO using concurrent instructions. We obtain the following chronogram:

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Through this article we described two configurable components:

a multi-function operator, structurally described from an elementary cell
a FIFO that allows the communication of messages between two asynchronous processors.

This article is part of my Electronics posts blog, in which you can find few articles about things i learnt in my post-graduated school :)

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