VHDL debouncer – single switch or multiple bits

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This VHDL project contains three modules that can debounce a switch or a button or arrays of them using a generate statement.

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Description

This design consists of three debouncer modules, where two of them have identical entities. The first is a simple switch debouncer, while the other two are capable of debouncing an n-bit vector of switches.

The first n-bit debouncer uses a process within a generate statement to duplicate the logic. The other instantiates the one-bit debouncer within a generate statement to achieve the same result.

The modules are customizable for any clock speeds or number of switches through the timeout_cycles and switch_count generics.

Entity

One-bit debouncer:

entity debouncer is
  generic (
    timeout_cycles : positive
    );
  port (
    clk : in std_logic;
    rst : in std_logic;
    switch : in std_logic;
    switch_debounced : out std_logic
  );
end debouncer; 

N-bit debouncer:

entity debouncer_n_bit is
  generic (
    switch_count : positive;
    timeout_cycles : positive
    );
  port (
    clk : in std_logic;
    rst : in std_logic;
    switches : in std_logic_vector(switch_count - 1 downto 0);
    switches_debounced : out std_logic_vector(switch_count - 1 downto 0)
  );
end debouncer_n_bit ;

Main article

Click here to read more about how I created this module:
Generate statement debouncer example

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MIT License

Copyright (c) 2024 Jonas Julian Jensen

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