I need to write a constraint to randomize such a way that consecutive 2 bits are set to 1, other bits are 0 (i.e. 16'b0000_0000_0011, 16'b0000_1100_0000, etc.) for a 16-bit variable.
I tried using $countones
. It is working for two bits, but it is not working consecutive 2 bits. Its display is:
# Value is 10000000000100
# Value is 10000000010
One simple way is to use a random index variable which is constrained between 0 and 14, then use another constraint to set only the 2 bits of your data.
module tb;
class c;
rand bit [ 3:0] idx;
rand bit [15:0] data;
constraint c0 {
idx < 15;
data == (3 << idx);
}
endclass
initial begin
c c;
c = new();
repeat (20) begin
c.randomize();
$displayb(c.data);
end
end
endmodule
Example output:
0000110000000000
0000011000000000
0000110000000000
0110000000000000
0000110000000000
0000000000110000
0000000110000000
0000110000000000
0000110000000000
0000001100000000
0000000000000011
0000001100000000
0000110000000000
0001100000000000
0000110000000000
0000000110000000
0011000000000000
0000000000110000
0000000000110000
0000001100000000