diference between verilog and schematic

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mersault

Joined: 05 Nov 2009
Posts: 2
Location: chile

05 Nov 2009 0:17 diference between verilog and schematic

Hello,

I'm working on a project in a spartan 3e with xilinx's ISE tool.
I made a half adder with schematic and this is the report

Device utilization summary:
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Selected Device : 3s500efg320-5

Number of Slices: 0 out of 4656 0%
Number of IOs: 4
Number of bonded IOBs: 4 out of 232 1%

I made the same half adder with verilog

module halfadder(a, b, sum, carry);

input a, b;
output sum, carry;

assign sum = a^b;
assign carry = a&b;

endmodule

and this is the report...

Device utilization summary:
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Selected Device : 3s500efg320-5

Number of Slices: 1 out of 4656 0%
Number of 4 input LUTs: 2 out of 9312 0%
Number of IOs: 4
Number of bonded IOBs: 4 out of 232 1%

why verilog programming uses a slice while the schematics doesn't?
there's a method to optimize area in verilog?

I hope that you could help me..
Greetings

pd: this is my first post.. so, hello to all the people of this forum

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wd5gnr

Joined: 21 Jan 2009
Posts: 7
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05 Nov 2009 6:23 Re: diference between verilog and schematic

What's your schematic look like? Are you inferring a dedicated adder resource? Or... what are your ISE settings? Perhaps it is preserving too much of your verilog.

I wonder if you tried:

assign { carry, sum } = a+b;

If that would give you a better infer?

Just a thought.

mersault

Joined: 05 Nov 2009
Posts: 2
Location: chile

05 Nov 2009 15:24 Re: diference between verilog and schematic

wd5gnr wrote:

hello, thank you for your answer..

with your method the utilization device is the same...

my schematic look like this

diference between verilog and schematic