character to std_logic_vector

[Pedro Claro]

Greetings,

I recently tried to open some files for reading and I managed to read
characters and then putting them in hexadecimal format. ( I used HREAD
form ieee.std_textio ). My question is the following: is there anyway
for reading characters ( from 0-255 in ascii ) and then converting them
do a std_logic_vector or an integer.
For example if I have a "K" on the file the output would be "4B" since
its the hexadecimal code of the character "K".

Thanks in advance,

Pedro Claro

 

[Ralf Hildebrandt]

Hi Pedro!

I recently tried to open some files for reading and I managed to read
characters and then putting them in hexadecimal format.

I've posted a quick&very dirty solution some time ago:
http://groups.google.de/[email protected]&rnum=2


Ralf

 

[Francisco Camarero]

This works for me:

...
use ieee.std_logic_arith.all;
...
MyStdLogicVector <= CONV_STD_LOGIC_VECTOR(character'pos(MyChar),8);
...

HTH

Francisco Camarero

 

[Jonathan Bromley]

This works for me:
MyStdLogicVector <= CONV_STD_LOGIC_VECTOR(character'pos(MyChar),8);

Fine for simulation. It doesn't work correctly in most synthesis tools,
sadly.
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[Pedro Claro]

I tried that. And it worked.
Thanks for the replies.

Pedro Claro

 

[Francisco Camarero]

Fine for simulation. It doesn't work correctly in most synthesis tools,
sadly.

I know.

I could assume from Pedro's message that,
if he was opening some files for reading,
he was not trying to synthesize that code.

Fran.

 

[Francisco Camarero]

For synthesis, you have to write a big mux (using case) including all
conversion (has a rom description).

I wrote this conversion table before.

Excuse me if I don't understand the issue here.

Why would someone want to synthesize a 'character to std_logic_vector' function?

File handling is not synthesizable, and I don't think any synthesis could can
handle character types, can they?

Fran.

 

[Ruudiculus]

Use of character to std_logic_vector conversion does make sense for synthesis

Hi,

I also use character to std_logic_vector conversion, by means of a charToByte(charIn) function:

to_unsigned(character'pos(charIn),8);

During simulation I use this to insert characters from files, but I also need it for synthesis, since I have an entity that parses serial data that is in ASCII. For readability in my code it is nicer to do a compare like:

... if serialByteIn = charToByte('{') then ...

Instead of:

... if serialByteIn = X"7B" then ...

So I do find it useful for synthesis as well.

 

[furqhan]

I tried that. And it worked.
Thanks for the replies.

Pedro Claro

can you send me the code man it will be of great help
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