steve wrote:

> Then I break my signals out and mask into chipscope (all is well with the
> world for 90% of my signals).
> BUT I have the following user enumerated types
>
> type FIFO_CNTL_SM_TYPE is (IDLE, RD_REQ, WR_REQ);
> signal fifo_cntl_ns : FIFO_CNTL_SM_TYPE;
> signal fifo_cntl_cs : FIFO_CNTL_SM_TYPE;
>
> how do i mask this damned thing into chipscope, I just get errors about the
> types not matching,.

The synthesis report has the state encodings.
Next time, try vhdl simulation, and you can use the enum names directly.

-- Mike Treseler