2 - Writing a one-bit full adder
Objective
This example will focus on:- VHDL components/primitives and instantiation
- Signals and signal interconnection
Implementation
A full-adder is an adder that also accepts a carry-in input. Full-adders can be chained to perform multi-bit additions.
Since we have already a simple adder, why not use that adder to implement a full-adder, like on the folowing diagram?:
library ieee;
use ieee.std_logic_1164.all;
entity fulladder is
port (
A: in std_logic;
B: in std_logic;
CI: in std_logic;
O: out std_logic;
CO: out std_logic
);
end entity fulladder;
architecture behave of fulladder is
component adder is
port (
A: in std_logic;
B: in std_logic;
O: out std_logic;
C: out std_logic
);
end component adder;
signal O1_result: std_logic;
signal C0_result: std_logic;
signal C1_result: std_logic;
begin
adder0: adder
port map (
A => CI,
B => O1_result,
O => O,
C => C0_result
);
adder1: adder
port map (
A => A,
B => B,
O => O1_result,
C => C1_result
);
process(C0_result,C1_result)
begin
CO <= C0_result or C1_result;
end process;
end behave;