Matching Relational Operators - 2023.1 English

Vivado Design Suite User Guide: Synthesis (UG901)

Document ID
UG901
Release Date
2023-06-09
Version
2023.1 English

VHDL-2008 now provides relational operators that return bit or std_logic types. In the previous VHDL standard, the relational operators (=, <, >=…) returned boolean types. With the new types, code that needed to be written as:

if x = y then
out1 <= '1';
else
out1 <= '0';
end if;

Can now be written as:

out1 <= x ?= y;

The following table lists the relational operators supported in Vivado.

Table 1. Supported Relational Operators
Operator Usage Description
?= x ?= y x equal to y
?/= x ?/= y x not equal to y
?< x ?< y x less than y
?<= x ?<= y x less than or equal to y
?> x ?> y x greater than y
?>= x ?>= y x greater than or equal to y