I am having trouble with combination assignment. I do not understand why I cannot use a always combination structure the set my output variables. When I use assign, I do not get the assignment error.
I thought assign and always@(*) both means blocking (combinational assignment)
module control_unit(input wire [31:0] instruction
,output wire RegDst
,output wire ALUSrc
,output wire RegWrite
,output wire MemRead
,output wire MemWrite
,output wire MemToReg
,output wire Branch
);
wire [5:0] opcode;
assign opcode = instruction[31:26];
always@(*) begin
case(opcode)
6'b000000: begin // r-type
RegDst = 1'b1;
ALUSrc = 1'b0;
RegWrite = 1'b1;
MemRead = 1'b0;
MemWrite = 1'b0;
MemToReg = 1'b0;
Branch = 1'b0;
end
.
.
.
default: begin
RegDst = 1'b0;
ALUSrc = 1'b0;
RegWrite = 1'b0;
MemRead = 1'b0;
MemWrite = 1'b0;
MemToReg = 1'b0;
Branch = 1'b0;
end
endcase
end // end always_comb
endmodule