I am learning CPU Design and basic Verilog HDL. I have a processor running in tkgate on Fedora 29 and I have designed a hardware RAM disk. I can't test the RAM but have decided to replace it with an HDL RAM disk. Whenever I try to simulate the circuit, I get the error:
RAM_HDL, line 17: Illegal use of 'w7' in left-hand-side assignment.
Here is my code for the RAM:
module RAM_HDL(RAM, Data_In, Data_Out, Address, RW);
reg [15:0] RAM [127:0];
wire [15:0] Data_In;
wire [15:0] Data_Out;
wire [7:0] Address;
wire RW;
initial
$readmemb("RAM_DATA.BIN", RAM);
always @(*)
begin
if (RW)
RAM[Address] <= Data_In;
Data_Out <= Address;
end
endmodule
The error is on line 17:
Data_Out <= Address;
The following code compiles at least:
module RAM_HDL(Data_In, Data_Out, Address, RW);
reg [15:0] RAM [127:0];
input [15:0] Data_In;
output [15:0] Data_Out;
input [7:0] Address;
input RW;
initial
$readmemb("RAM_DATA.BIN", RAM);
always @(*)
begin
if (RW)
RAM[Address] <= Data_In;
end
assign Data_Out = RAM[Address];
endmodule