I’m from Norway, but I live in Bangkok, Thailand. Before I started VHDLwhiz, I worked as an FPGA engineer in the defense industry. I earned my master’s degree in informatics at the University of Oslo.
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Though those two codes are logically equivalent, the right one infers a transparent latch, it shouldn’t be used for synthesis.
I don’t think it does, but I’m not 100% sure what the synthesis tools do all the time.
This will infer a latch:
process(InSig) is begin if InSig = '0' then OutSig <= '1'; end if; end process;This shouldn’t create any latches:
process(InSig) is begin OutSig <= '0'; if InSig = '0' then OutSig <= '1'; end if; end process;A link to the question:
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