Case Statement - 2025.2 English - UG901

Vivado Design Suite User Guide: Synthesis (UG901)

Document ID
UG901
Release Date
2025-12-05
Version
2025.2 English

The syntax for a case statement is:

case (expression)
value1: statement1;
value2: statement2;
value3: statement3;
default: statement4;
endcase

The default statement inside a case statement is optional. The tool evaluates the values in order, so if both value1 and value3 are true, it performs statement1.

In addition to case, there are also the casex and casez statements. These statements let you handle don't cares in the values (casex) or tri-state conditions in the values (casez).

If you use unique or priority case statements, Vivado synthesis treats them as parallel_case and full_case, respectively.