Ho! No FPGA-reset button on armadeus card.

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That is a constant comment about the armadeus apf9328 card. Most of FPGA designer learn that it's mandatory to use a reset in each module with structure like it:

myprocess : process (clk,reset)
begin
  if reset = '1' then
    -- init values
  elsif rising_edge(clk) then
    -- processing code
  end if;
end process myprocess;

But by default there is no reset button on card, then what to do ?

Plug a reset button

Of course it's possible to solder a reset button on card, there are a large amount of I/O on connector and one can serve to do it.

Generate the reset internal

But it is possible to use initial state of fpga after configuration with this code:

Warning: This code work only with FPGA, because states of flip-flop after configuration is defined to '0'. This can't work with CPLD for example because beginning state is unknown.

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 Entity clock_and_reset_gen is 
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 generic(
     invert_reset : std_logic := '0' -- 0 : not invert, 1 invert
 );
 port 
 (
 	-- external signals
 	ext_clk : in std_logic ;
 	--internal generated signals
 	gls_clk : out std_logic ;
 	gls_reset : out std_logic 
 );
 end entity;
 
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 Architecture clock_and_reset_gen_1 of clock_and_reset_gen is
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 	signal dly: std_logic := '0';
 	signal rst: std_logic := '0';
 	signal int_reset : std_logic;

 begin

 	int_reset <= '0';
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    --  RESET signal generator.
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    process(ext_clk)
    begin
      if(rising_edge(ext_clk)) then
        dly <= ( not(int_reset) and     dly  and not(rst) )
            or ( not(int_reset) and not(dly) and     rst  );
    
        rst <= ( not(int_reset) and not(dly) and not(rst) );
      end if;
    end process;
    
    gls_clk <= ext_clk;
    gls_reset <= rst xor invert_reset ;
 	
 end architecture clock_and_reset_gen_1;