Control Registers

The CustomWrapper provides 10 Control registers which can be used to control the behaviour of the custom design at runtime. The registers are labelled Control0 through to Control9 and are all 32 bit std_logic_vectors.

Type Casting

These Controls can be assigned to various signals in a custom design and will often require casting to another type or resizing or both.

-- Import libraries that contain the types we need
library IEEE;
use IEEE.Std_Logic_1164.all;  -- for std_logic(_vector) and resize()
use IEEE.Numeric_Std.all;  -- for signed and unsigned etc.

architecture Behavioural of CustomWrapper is
    -- define signals here
    signal A : signed(12 downto 0);
    signal B : std_logic;
    signal C : unsigned(63 downto 0);
begin

    A <= signed(Control0(12 downto 0));  -- take 13 LSBs and cast to signed
    B <= Control0(15);  -- Controls can be shared
    -- resize Control1 to 64 bits, MSBs padded with '0'
    C <= resize(unsigned(Control1), C'length);

end architecture;