Wait statement in a Process

Hi,

How many wait statements can we use in a process statement?
I us Quartus II web edition for compilation. On compiling my code it
says, we cant use multiple wait statements in the same process.
However many books give examples of processes with multiple wait
statements.

I need to design a sample data transfer interface. For this i need to
find the clock events.
However i cannot use

* if clk'EVENT and clk = '1' then *

construct. What exactly i need is to wait till i get the next clock
edge. Hope you understood the question. Any solution to it, in logic
or code will be a great help for proceeding my project.

Thanking You all in advance.
Lee

leeaby@gmail.com

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> Hi,
>
> How many wait statements can we use in a process statement?

This depends on your synthesis tool, most high-end tools like
Precision/Synplify can handle multiple "wait until" statements in a process
provided they use the same clock signal.

> I us Quartus II web edition for compilation. On compiling my code it
> says, we cant use multiple wait statements in the same process.
> However many books give examples of processes with multiple wait
> statements.
>
> I need to design a sample data transfer interface. For this i need to
> find the clock events.
> However i cannot use
>
> * if clk'EVENT and clk = '1' then *
>
> construct. What exactly i need is to wait till i get the next clock
> edge. Hope you understood the question. Any solution to it, in logic
> or code will be a great help for proceeding my project.

Google VHDL Finite State Machines (1,2,3 process statemachines, mealy versus
moore etc).

Hans
www.ht-lab.com



>
> Thanking You all in advance.
> Lee
>

schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> How many wait statements can we use in a process statement?
> I us Quartus II web edition for compilation. On compiling my code it
> says, we cant use multiple wait statements in the same process.
> However many books give examples of processes with multiple wait
> statements.
>
> I need to design a sample data transfer interface. For this i need to
> find the clock events.
> However i cannot use
>
> * if clk'EVENT and clk = '1' then *
>
> construct. What exactly i need is to wait till i get the next clock
> edge. Hope you understood the question. Any solution to it, in logic
> or code will be a great help for proceeding my project.
>
> Thanking You all in advance.
> Lee
>
Hi Lee,
as Hans mentioned, there's only one Clock signal per Process allowed.
But when you write "...to wait till i get the next clock
edge." do you mean any clock edge?

For simulation you can do that easily with:

if clk'EVENT then

but for synthesis you need a target that supports dual edge FFs. I doubt
that these are in your desired FPGA.
AFAIK, the only devices that have Dual Edge FFs are some XILINX CPLDs.

There are lots of postings about this topic in comp.lang.vhdl and
comp.arch.fpga.

have a nice synthesis
Eilert

I have the code for a dual edge D flipflop and it seems to work fine
in the ISE synthesis tool

library IEEE;
use IEEE.STD_LOGIC_1164.ALL;
use IEEE.STD_LOGIC_ARITH.ALL;
use IEEE.STD_LOGIC_UNSIGNED.ALL;

entity LatchDD is
Port (D,CLK,R : in STD_LOGIC;
Q,QN : out STD_LOGIC);
end LatchDD;

architecture Behavioral of LatchDD is
signal Q1,Q2 : std_logic;
begin
-- Positive Edge ---
process(D,clk,R)
begin
if R='1' then Q2<='0';
elsif(clk'event and clk='1') then Q2<=D;
else null; end if;
end process;
-- Negative Edge ---
process(D,clk,R)
begin
if R='1' then Q1<='0';
elsif(clk'event and clk='0') then Q1<=D;
else null; end if;
end process;

Q <= (Q1 or Q2);
QN <= not(Q1 or Q2);

end Behavioral;

------------------------------------

Or you can use this that only check the edges of the clk

library IEEE;
use IEEE.STD_LOGIC_1164.ALL;
use IEEE.STD_LOGIC_ARITH.ALL;
use IEEE.STD_LOGIC_UNSIGNED.ALL;

entity LatchDD is
Port (D,CLK,R : in STD_LOGIC;
Q,QN : out STD_LOGIC);
end LatchDD;

architecture Behavioral of LatchDD is
signal Q1,Q2 : std_logic;
begin
-- Positive Edge ---
process(D,clk,R)
begin
if R='1' then Q2<='0';
elsif(rising_edge(clk)) then Q2<=D;
else null; end if;
end process;
-- Negative Edge ---
process(D,clk,R)
begin
if R='1' then Q1<='0';
elsif(falling_edge(clk)) then Q1<=D;
else null; end if;
end process;

Q <= (Q1 or Q2);
QN <= not(Q1 or Q2);

end Behavioral;

Hope this help you, I'm a student of vhdl, so plz don't be to harsh if
this is not the answer



On Feb 18, 2:18 am, lee...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How many wait statements can we use in a process statement?
> I us Quartus II web edition for compilation. On compiling my code it
> says, we cant use multiple wait statements in the same process.
> However many books give examples of processes with multiple wait
> statements.
>
> I need to design a sample data transfer interface. For this i need to
> find the clock events.
> However i cannot use
>
> * if clk'EVENT and clk = '1' then *
>
> construct. What exactly i need is to wait till i get the next clock
> edge. Hope you understood the question. Any solution to it, in logic
> or code will be a great help for proceeding my project.
>
> Thanking You all in advance.
> Lee