Question

I’m an FPGA noob trying to learn Verilog. How can I “assign” a value to a reg in an always block, either as an initial value, or as a constant. I’m trying to do something like this in the code below. I get an error because the 8 bit constant doesn’t count as input. I also don’t want to trigger the always off of a clock. I just want to assign a register to a specific value. As I want it to be synthesisable I can’t use an initial block. Thanks a lot.

module top
(
    input wire clk,
    output wire [7:0] led   
 );


reg [7:0] data_reg ; 
always @*
begin
    data_reg = 8'b10101011;
end

assign led = data_reg;

endmodule

Answer 1

You can combine the register declaration with initialization.

reg [7:0] data_reg = 8'b10101011;

Or you can use an initial block

reg [7:0] data_reg;
initial data_reg = 8'b10101011;