Can I read/access 16 bit vector data as two 8 bits in Systemverilog?

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My external I/F to embedded SRAM is 16 bit. So I am clubbing two 8 bits and loading to embedded RAM(declared as 16 bit wide data ). Can I access as two 8 bits?

[Altera_Forum]

Yes. Just access the specific bit vectors. 

 IE  assign lowbyte_c = word[7:0]; assign highbyte_c = word[15:8];   Pete