undeclared loop variable

[Brad Smallridge]

It seems that I can drop this into a testbench without
declaring col as a signal or a variable or anything.
What is vhdl doing with col?

for col in 1 to 16 loop
wait for clkperiod;
end loop;

 

[Kai Harrekilde-Petersen]

"Brad Smallridge" <bradsmallridge@dslextreme.com> writes:

It seems that I can drop this into a testbench without
declaring col as a signal or a variable or anything.
What is vhdl doing with col?

VHDL considers the iteration variable to be constant for each pass
through the loop.

Regards,


Kai
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[My Name]

Brad Smallridge wrote:

It seems that I can drop this into a testbench without
declaring col as a signal or a variable or anything.
What is vhdl doing with col?

for col in 1 to 16 loop
wait for clkperiod;
end loop;

the only potential draw back that I see to this type of a construct is
that you can't reference "col" anywhere outside of the loop

 

[Neo]

The looping index is considered an implicit variable in vhdl and is
local to the for loop.

 

[Alan Fitch]

Neo wrote:

The looping index is considered an implicit variable in vhdl and is
local to the for loop.

In fact as Kai pointed out, the loop index is a constant.

All that means in practice is that you can't, for instance, do

col := 10;

inside the loop.

regards
Alan

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[Paul Uiterlinden]

My Name wrote:

for col in 1 to 16 loop
wait for clkperiod;
end loop;

the only potential draw back that I see to this type of a construct is
that you can't reference "col" anywhere outside of the loop

I don't see that as a drawback. What value would you expect "col" to
have outside the loop anyway?

Paul.

 

[Jonathan Bromley]

On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 00:30:14 -0700, My Name <email@address.com> wrote:

[VHDL 'for' loop index is an implied constant within the loop...]

the only potential draw back that I see to this type of a construct is
that you can't reference "col" anywhere outside of the loop

Can you show me an example of this kind of thing that I could
read and yet still retain my lunch?
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[Michael]

Paul Uiterlinden wrote:

My Name wrote:


for col in 1 to 16 loop
wait for clkperiod;
end loop;


the only potential draw back that I see to this type of a construct is
that you can't reference "col" anywhere outside of the loop


I don't see that as a drawback. What value would you expect "col" to
have outside the loop anyway?

Paul.

well, neither do I really.