Re: gEDA-user: Icarus Verilog: selecting parts of an array

[Stephen Williams <steve@icarus.com>]

>integer i;
>for (i = 0; i < 64; i = i + 8) begin
>    @posedge(clk);
>    data = test[i:(i+8)];
>end


brendan.simon@bigpond.com said:
> Is the above a valid Verilog code snippet (ignoring the erroneous
> posedge statement) ??? 

No, non-constant part selects are not allowed in Verilog-1995.
In Verilog 2001, The syntax you are looking for is the indexed
part select:

	data = test[i +: 8];

Icarus Verilog doesn't yet support the -2001 indexed part select
syntax, although some commercial simulators might.
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