Re: components

Ed Casas (edc@ece.ubc.ca) Sun, 29 Oct 2000 07:31:19 -0800 

Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 07:31:19 -0800
From: Ed Casas <edc@ece.ubc.ca>
Subject: Re: components



> I was wondering if someone could explain how to declare a
> component and use it.  I understand that you must put
> components in a package but I don't understand where you put
> the architecture for the component.

A component won't necessarily have an architecture (it may not
even have been designed using VHDL).

The mechanism by which a VHDL synthesizer resolves a reference to
a component is implementation-specific.

For the labs and assignments you should define a component's
entity and architecture in a .vhd file with the same name as the
component and compile it separately before using the component.
MaxPlusII will look for pre-compiled components in your project
directory.

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