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Carry in on a 4 bit adder

Altera_Forum
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Hi 

 

I have a add in verilog to add 2 times 4 bit A+B and a carry to get a result of 4 bit + 1 carry out 

I do use Quartus 14.0 and a MAX10 

 

I do have this verilog code: 

 

module add_4bit_carry( Ai,Bi,cin, Fo,cout); 

 

 

input [3:0] Ai; 

input [3:0] Bi; 

input cin; 

 

 

output [3:0] Fo; 

output cout; 

 

 

wire [4:0] total; 

 

 

assign total=Ai+Bi+cin; 

assign Fo=total[3:0]; 

assign cout=total[4]; 

 

 

 

 

endmodule 

 

When I see the RTL I.m very surprised the CIN are not connected to the Carry in on the first adder ... I see no why Quartus do use 2 adders. 

I want to save LUT's and to have a high Fmax so how to force the CIN to be used? 

 

 

 

http://www.alteraforum.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=11006&stc=1
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Altera_Forum
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Have your checked the Technology Map Viewer. That will tell you how it is mapped into hardware. The RTL viewer is only really useful to get a idea of how things are connected up, it doesn't always give the best representation of code.

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Altera_Forum
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Yes same result in the Technology Map... I have tried different way to force it but no luck 

 

I also found a this info at "https://www.altera.com/content/dam/altera-www/global/en_US/pdfs/literature/ug/ug_low_level.pdf

"The cin port of the CARRY_SUM primitive cannot be fed by an input pin." 

 

Guess it's not possible to route the cin / cout in the normal routing
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