DE2 Laboratory 8 bit wide mux (VHDL)

Altera_Forum · ‎09-24-2013

Hi guys,

After 10 years of leaving high school, and 5 years after purchasing a DE2 board, I found time again to start playing with FPGA’s.

So I started where everybody does (I think), with the lab exercises. And I’m already struggling with the 2[SUP]nd[/SUP] part of the 1[SUP]st[/SUP] lab.

The exercise is to make an 8 bit wide, 2-to-1 mux.

My code is:

LIBRARY ieee;

USE ieee.std_logic_1164.all;

ENTITY entitypart2 IS

PORT( x : IN std_logic_vector (7 DOWNTO 0);

y : IN std_logic_vector (7 DOWNTO 0);

s : IN std_logic;

M : OUT std_logic_vector (7 DOWNTO 0);

ledupper : OUT std_logic_vector (7 DOWNTO 0);

ledlower : OUT std_logic_vector (7 DOWNTO 0));

END entitypart2;

ARCHITECTURE mux OF entitypart2 IS

BEGIN

ledupper <= y;

ledlower <= x;

M <= x WHEN (s = '0') ELSE y;

END mux;

X and y are routed to switches 0 to 7 and 8 to 15, M is routed to the green LED’s. The “ledupper” and “ledlower” are just added to see if something happens when I switch.

The problem is: nothing happens!! If you don´t count that only LEDG7 goes on when I switch SW4 and all the red LED’s are on.

What is wrong? In the RTL viewer, I see a (one) nice 2-to1 mux with x and y as input bus and M as output bus.

Do I have to see 8 different mux’es?

Altera_Forum · ‎09-25-2013

Do u assign pins with the pin planner? In the RTL viewer u'll see on mux, but the inputs and outputs will be 8 bit vectors. Do u see that? Or the inputs are 1 bit long?

Altera_Forum · ‎09-25-2013

I loaded the pin file from the file from the website and assigned the pins in the schematic topfile.

And I see 8bit vectors in the RTL viewer. Exercise 3 is working without problems.