When I instantiate a module and I only care about some of the bits in the output, is there a short-hand syntax to throw away the bits? Something like
my_module module_instance
(
.some_output({garbage1,important1[7:0]})
);
In this case, the signal some_output
in my_module
is 9 bits wide, but I only want to stick the lower 8 bits into important1
. I could make a signal with all 9 bits, and then just select the 8 from it, and I know the compiler will optimize it, but I'm looking for an idiom or an abbreviation.
If you parameterize the width of the output port in your module, then pass the parameter to the instance, there is no need to create a signal to throw away unused bits:
my_module module_instance #(.WIDTH(8))
(
.some_output(important1[7:0])
);