Construct synthesis problem

[Kuan Zhou]

Hi,

I read a piece of code as follows:

.....
port(a,b: IN integer; c: OUT integer);
.....

Architecture error_arch2 of math_test IS
Begin
c <= a/5;
.....

The error message for c<=a/5 in the synthesis is: The second operand
must be a power of two.

Can anybody explain it to me?


Kuan

 

[Lars Wehmeyer]

Kuan Zhou wrote:

The error message for c<=a/5 in the synthesis is: The second operand
must be a power of two.

Just a guess: your synthesis library does not support division units.
Therefore, the / operator can only be used to mean right shift,
which implies a power of two as second operand.

HTH

Lars

 

[Mohammed A khader]

HI Kuan,

One Arithmetic right shift is equal to ' divide by 2 '. Lets take an
example Suppose you have a 5 bit of std_logic_vector as
vec = "00110". hence it represents 6 . If you right shift the vec
once then it becomes "00011" . which represents 3. That mean Shifting
right by one time is equal to dividing by 2. Similarly Shifting Left by
1 time is equal to multiply by 2 .

Suppose if you write c <= a/4 , then what it does is just right
shift by 2 times.

I assume you know the difference between airthmetic shift and logical
shift. If not you refer to some good arithmetic book to find the
difference.