If you have a hierarchical design (so one block is built from others), you will have to instantiate and connect modules. Even if you have only one module and testbench dedicated for it, you will have to do that. In testbench used in previous post, I showed, how to instantiate a component, but there are more simpler ways to do that. Below you can find a few methods.
Read More »ComponentHaving entity declaration and body architecture only one thing is still to do before compilation. I have to inform compiler which libraries are needed to analyze the design. Therefore, before entity declaration I inserted name of the library and package which will be used. This is ieee library and package std_logic_1164 (package, which contains declarations of basic types used in the design).
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