bad synchronous description error

[fpgawizz]

I am trying to synthesize this piece of code
entity Coin is
Port ( reset : in std_logic;
quarter : in std_logic;
dime : in std_logic;
nickel : in std_logic;
isselvalid : in std_logic;
d2 : out std_logic_vector(3 downto 0);
d3 : out std_logic_vector(3 downto 0);
coinval : out integer range 0 to 95);
end Coin;

architecture Behavioral of Coin is
signal temp : integer range 0 to 95;
begin

process(reset,quarter,dime,nickel,isselvalid)
begin
if reset = '1' then
d2 <= "0000";
d3 <= "0000";
temp <= 0;
elsif isselvalid = '1' then
if quarter'event and quarter = '1' then
temp <= temp + 25;
elsif dime'event and dime = '1' then
temp <= temp + 10;
elsif nickel'event and nickel = '1' then
temp <= temp + 5;
else
temp <= temp;
end if;
else
temp <= temp;
end if;
coinval <= temp;

case temp is

when 0 =>
d2 <= "0000";
d3 <= "0000";
when 5 =>
d2 <= "0101";
d3 <= "0000";
when 10 =>
d2 <= "0000";
d3 <= "0001";
when 15 =>
d2 <= "0101";
d3 <= "0001";
when 20 =>
d2 <= "0000";
d3 <= "0010";
when 25 =>
d2 <= "0101";
d3 <= "0010";
when 30 =>
d2 <= "0000";
d3 <= "0011";
when 35 =>
d2 <= "0101";
d3 <= "0011";
when 40 =>
d2 <= "0000";
d3 <= "0100";
when 45 =>
d2 <= "0101";
d3 <= "0100";
when 50 =>
d2 <= "0000";
d3 <= "0101";
when 55 =>
d2 <= "0101";
d3 <= "0101";
when 60 =>
d2 <= "0000";
d3 <= "0110";
when 65 =>
d2 <= "0101";
d3 <= "0110";
when 70 =>
d2 <= "0000";
d3 <= "0111";
when 75 =>
d2 <= "0101";
d3 <= "0111";
when 80 =>
d2 <= "0000";
d3 <= "1000";
when 85 =>
d2 <= "0101";
d3 <= "1000";
when 90 =>
d2 <= "0000";
d3 <= "1001";
when 95 =>
d2 <= "0101";
d3 <= "1001";
when others =>
d2 <= "1111";
d3 <= "1111";
end case;

end process;
end Behavioral;

Quarter,dime and Nickel are 3 buttons that when pressed generate pulse. I
want to add 25,10 or 5 when they are pressed and pass the value on to a
display using d2 and d3. I have this error where it says temp has bad
sysnchrounous desription. Any comments on hw i can fix this?

thanks

 

[dutchgoldtony]

I'd say it's a bad idea to use the if <a>'event and <a> = whatever
unless a is a clock signal. This is probably where your error is
coming from

Tony

 

[Paulo Valentim]

The pulses for quarter, dime and nickel run off some clock, right?
If so, you need to make a process based on that clock. T

process(reset,clk, quarter,dime,nickel,isselvalid)
begin
if reset = '1' then
d2 &lt;= "0000";
d3 &lt;= "0000";
temp &lt;= 0;
elsif clk'event and clk = '1' then
if isselvalid = '1' then
if quarter = '1' then
temp &lt;= temp + 25;
elsif dime = '1' then
temp &lt;= temp + 10;
elsif nickel = '1' then
temp &lt;= temp + 5;
else
temp &lt;= temp;
end if;
else
temp &lt;= temp;
end if;
end if;

That's it! Nothing else, nothing more!

- Paulo Valentim

"fpgawizz" &lt;bhaskarstays@yahoo.com&gt; wrote in message news:&lt;51d1fb309595a523f80fb5a1d0996757@localhost.talkaboutelectronicequipment.com&gt;...

process(reset,quarter,dime,nickel,isselvalid)
begin
if reset = '1' then
d2 &lt;= "0000";
d3 &lt;= "0000";
temp &lt;= 0;
elsif isselvalid = '1' then
if quarter'event and quarter = '1' then
temp &lt;= temp + 25;
elsif dime'event and dime = '1' then
temp &lt;= temp + 10;
elsif nickel'event and nickel = '1' then
temp &lt;= temp + 5;
else
temp &lt;= temp;
end if;
else
temp &lt;= temp;
end if;
coinval &lt;= temp;

 

[dutchgoldtony]

You're getting that bad synchronous description because your design
isn't synchronous. I.E. You have no clock signal in your design as
Paulo has above which is correct

 

[Ralf Hildebrandt]

fpgawizz wrote:

process(reset,quarter,dime,nickel,isselvalid)
begin
if reset = '1' then
d2 &lt;= "0000";
d3 &lt;= "0000";
temp &lt;= 0;
elsif isselvalid = '1' then
if quarter'event and quarter = '1' then

Don't use 'event inside an if / elsif or case branch.

temp &lt;= temp + 25;
elsif dime'event and dime = '1' then

Don't use 'event in an elsif-branch, if you already have used 'event in a preceding if /
elsif- or case-branch.

Don't use two times 'event inside one process except you are very sure, that your
synthesis tool is capable of synthesizing dual-edge flipflops. This is very rare!


....

case temp is

Don't do anything after an elsif branch with an 'event.



Use the FF-template (you may cut some resets / sets):

process(async_set, async_reset, clock)
begin
if (async_reset='1') then
-- do some reset (asynchronously)
elsif (set='1') then
-- do some set (asynchronously)
elsif rising_edge(clock) then
if (sync_set='1') then
-- do some set (synchronously)
elsif (sync_reset='1') then
-- do some reset (synchronously)
else
-- do something else
end if;
end if;
end process;

(I have used rising_edge(clock) instead of (clock'event and clock='1') which is almost the
same except some simulation specific cases.)

Ralf