-- Copyright (C) 2002 Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc -- This file is part of VESTs (Vhdl tESTs). -- VESTs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it -- under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the -- Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at -- your option) any later version. -- VESTs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT -- ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or -- FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License -- for more details. -- You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License -- along with VESTs; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, -- Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA entity limited is end entity limited; architecture test of limited is -- code from book function limited ( value, min, max : real ) return real is begin if value > max then return max; elsif value < min then return min; else return value; end if; end function limited; -- end code from book begin tester : process is variable new_temperature, current_temperature, increment : real; variable new_motor_speed, old_motor_speed, scale_factor, error : real; begin current_temperature := 75.0; increment := 10.0; -- code from book (in text) new_temperature := limited ( current_temperature + increment, 10.0, 100.0 ); -- end code from book increment := 60.0; new_temperature := limited ( current_temperature + increment, 10.0, 100.0 ); increment := -100.0; new_temperature := limited ( current_temperature + increment, 10.0, 100.0 ); old_motor_speed := 1000.0; scale_factor := 5.0; error := 5.0; -- code from book (in text) new_motor_speed := old_motor_speed + scale_factor * limited ( error, -10.0, +10.0 ); -- end code from book error := 15.0; new_motor_speed := old_motor_speed + scale_factor * limited ( error, -10.0, +10.0 ); error := -20.0; new_motor_speed := old_motor_speed + scale_factor * limited ( error, -10.0, +10.0 ); wait; end process tester; end architecture test;