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craymichael
craymichael

Reputation: 4821

Vivado Sim Error: "root scope declaration is not allowed in verilog 95/2K mode"

When I go to simulate my top-level module in Xilinx Vivado 2016.4, I receive the peculiar error:

ERROR: [VRFC 10-1342] root scope declaration is not allowed in verilog 95/2K mode [<...>/header.vh]

I am using the built-in Vivado Simulator with Verilog 2001 specified. My header.vh looks like the following:

`ifndef _header_vh_
`define _header_vh_

    function integer clog2;
        input integer value;
        begin 
            value = value - 1;
            for (clog2 = 0; value > 0; clog2 = clog2 + 1)
                value = value >> 1;
        end 
    endfunction

`endif

Upvotes: 2

Views: 7074

Answers (1)

craymichael
craymichael

Reputation: 4821

This error arises as the scope of the function, clog2, is effectively set to root (as it's not declared within a module); this scope declaration is not allowed in Verilog 2001, but is in later versions (e.g. SystemVerilog). Switching to SystemVerilog would solve the issue (but is not recommended), but introducing a module wrapper for the function will suffice.

`ifndef _header_vh_
`define _header_vh_

module header();
    function integer clog2;
        input integer value;
        begin 
            value = value - 1;
            for (clog2 = 0; value > 0; clog2 = clog2 + 1)
                value = value >> 1;
        end 
    endfunction
endmodule

`endif

Upvotes: 5

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