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TheAlPaca02
TheAlPaca02

Reputation: 523

VHDL directly comparing vectors

I was wondering if its possible to directly compare 2 vectors with eachother instead of just looking at them bit by bit.

For example:

entity Comparator is
port(a,b in: std_logic_vector (2 downto 0);
     out1, out2 out: std_logic);
end Comparator;

architecture behavioural of Comparator1 is
begin
    if a = b then
        out1 <= '1'
    else if /= then
        out2 <= '1'
    end if;
end behaviour;

Is this possible?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 71292

Answers (2)

s7s
s7s

Reputation: 21

You can also use to_integer(unsigned(a)) and threat them as integers. For example:

IF(to_integer(unsigned(a)) < to_integer(unsigned(b))) THEN

Upvotes: 2

user1155120
user1155120

Reputation:

The answer is yes, you can compare two array types of the same type and subtype indication directly.

However your example code isn't valid.

The result of the expression a=b is boolean. You convert that to std_logic by assigning out1 and out2. An if statement in this context has to be in a process statement. Also you don't need two outputs:

architecture foo of Comparator1 is
begin
UNLABELED:
    process (a,b)
    begin
        if a = b then
            out1 <= '1';
        else 
            out1 <= '0';
        end if;
    end process;
end architecture;

Alternative a concurrent signal assignment statement, a conditional signal assignment that has an equivalent process to that above:

architecture fum of Comparator1 is
begin
UNLABELED:
    out1 <= '1' when a = b else '0';
end architecture;

Upvotes: 7

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