Use a table in VHDL

Hi everyone, I´m trying to find some tutorial for implement a table in
VHDL. This is my intention:

- I have a 8x8 table made in Matlab
- Depending of two inputs, which can go from 1 to 8,
- I need to have at the output the corresponding value of the mentioned
table.

What´s the simpliest way to do it? I have heard something about Look up
Tables (LUT), but I don´t know if this is the better solution... and if it
is, can someone give me a basic paper?

Thanks a lot, and sorry for my poor english!

Thanks a lot

eneko

eneko wrote:

> - I have a 8x8 table made in Matlab
> - Depending of two inputs, which can go from 1 to 8,
> - I need to have at the output the corresponding value of the mentioned
> table.

Consider an array of 8 bit vectors.
>
> What´s the simpliest way to do it? I have heard something about Look up
> Tables (LUT),

Thats a device primitive, not a VHDL type.

-- Mike Treseler

Mike Treseler

thanks Mike, but:
How I implement this table, whith an if estructure? case?
I thought it was a better way to do it,
and, what do you say whith "device primitive"? sorry but I don´t
understand you.
Thanks one more time.

eneko

eneko wrote:
>
> Hi everyone, I´m trying to find some tutorial for implement a table in
> VHDL. This is my intention:
>
> - I have a 8x8 table made in Matlab
> - Depending of two inputs, which can go from 1 to 8,
> - I need to have at the output the corresponding value of the mentioned
> table.
>
> What´s the simpliest way to do it? I have heard something about Look up
> Tables (LUT), but I don´t know if this is the better solution... and if it
> is, can someone give me a basic paper?
>
> Thanks a lot, and sorry for my poor english!

You did not say what your data is in the table. But a simple array of
63 downto 0 will do the job if you append the two indicies into one
index. You also did not say what the indicies are. Do you know the
source of the indicies? Will they be slv or integers?

--

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rickman

Thanks for all, finally I think I will use a bidimensional array for my
purposes, in this way (with 4 positions):

type table is array (1 to 4, 1 to 4) of integer;
signal table1:table;

Then I fill the gaps in this way:

table1<=((1,2,3,4),(4,3,2,1),(1,1,1,1),(2,2,2,2));

And if I want something from this table:

number<=table1(2,3)
and will return number 2.

I will hope this can be useful for other beginner like me.

Thanks for all !!

eneko

> Thanks for all, finally I think I will use a bidimensional array for
my
> purposes, in this way (with 4 positions):

This may not work for some synthesis tools. Synopsys DC didn't support
more-dimensional arrays for a long time (I think it does now with the
Presto version, not sure). The work-around is to use an array of an
array instead, which works with pretty much all major synthesis tools.

Eg.
type t_IntArray is array(7 downto 0) of integer;
type t_IntArrayArray is array(7 downto 0) of t_IntArray;

signal myIntAA : t_IntArrayArray.

....

element <= myIntAA(index1)(index2);

(instead of: element <= myIntAA(index1, index);

Note that using an integer will create 32 FF's per element. If you want
to synthesize this later on, you may want to restrict the range of the
integer...

Tom

Tom Verbeure

"eneko" <> wrote:
> - I have a 8x8 table made in Matlab
> - Depending of two inputs, which can go from 1 to 8,
> - I need to have at the output the corresponding value of the mentioned
> table.
>
> What´s the simpliest way to do it? I have heard something about Look up
> Tables (LUT), but I don´t know if this is the better solution... and if it
> is, can someone give me a basic paper?

Use some constants (like the std_logic definition).

For one input you need one table
eg:
type sig is array 3 downto 0 of std_logic_vector(1 downto 0);
constant SIG<=("00","01","10","11");
output_vector<=SIG(2)

For two dimensions I would use more tables to ensure the synthesis
tool could manage the code and build a maintype as array of tables.

bye Thomas

Thomas Stanka

I will change it,

Thanks for all!!

eneko