- IEEE 1164
The
IEEE Standard 1164 defines a package design unit that contains declarations that support a uniform representation of a logic value in aVHDL hardware description. The standardization effort was based on the donation of theSynopsys MVL-9 type declaration.The primary data type std_ulogic (standard unresolved logic) consists of nine character literals in the following order:
'U' - uninitialized
'X' - strong drive, unknown logic value
'0' - strong drive, logic zero
'1' - strong drive, logic one
'Z' - high impedance
'W' - weak drive, unknown logic value
'L' - weak drive, logic zero
'H' - weak drive, logic one
'-' - don't care
This system promoted a useful set of logic values that typical CMOS logic design could utilize in the vast majority of modeling situations. The 'Z' literal makes
Tri-state buffer logic easy. The 'H' and 'L' weak drives permitwire-and andwire-or logic. Additionally, the 'U' state is the default value for all object declarations so that during simulations uninitialized values are easily detectable and thus easily corrected if necessary.In
VHDL , the hardware designer makes the declarations visible via the followinglibrary
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Four valued logic
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