Making your code cleaner with a constant vhdl
Using a constant vhdl declaration is one of those simple habits that separates messy, unreadable code from something actually professional. If you've ever spent three hours hunting down a single hardcoded bit-width error in a 5,000-line file, you know exactly what I'm talking about. Hardcoding values—or "magic numbers," as some people call them—is a recipe for disaster in hardware design. ...