Associating a VHDL RECORD with a buffer

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I am storing some data into a array of STD. type my_array is array(0 to 7) std_logic_vector(7 downto 0); signal datain : my_array; How do I associated a record with datain? Data comes into my code and I save it into an array as follows: datain[0]

[Altera_Forum]

why not post some more code, in cotext, with what you are doing. Your topic is a little confusing as buffer is a reserved VHDL for a port type (in, out, inout and buffer). And your post shows no documentation of the record type.

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The 8-bit data comes into my code and I save it into datain. First byte goes into datain[0]. Second byte goes into datain[1]. Etc. When all 8 bytes have been put into datain I want to access these using a record such that my_rec.a

[Altera_Forum]

well, you need to declare a record type with the appropriate fields.

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I am storing some data into a array of 

STDV type my_array is array(0 to 7) std_logic_vector(7 downto 0);  signal datain : my_array;   type my_record is record a : std_logic_vector(7 downto 0); b : std_logic_vector(7 downto 0); etc end record.    signal header : my_record;    How do I associated the "header" with datain? Data comes into my code and I save it into an array as follows: datain[0]

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you need to manual assign the fields: 

 header.a <= datain(0); header.b <= datain(1);  etc.