Quartus® Prime Pro Edition User Guide: Design Recommendations

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Date 7/08/2024
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1.6.5.2.2. Selector Multiplexers

Selector multiplexers have a separate select line for each data input. The select lines for the multiplexer are one-hot encoded. Quartus® Prime commonly builds selector multiplexers as a tree of AND and OR gates.

Even though the implementation of a tree-shaped, N-input selector multiplexer is slightly less efficient than a binary multiplexer, in many cases the select signal is the output of a decoder. Quartus® Prime synthesis combines the selector and decoder into a binary multiplexer.

Verilog HDL One-Hot-Encoded CASE Statement

case (sel)
   4'b0001: z = a;
   4'b0010: z = b;
   4'b0100: z = c;
   4'b1000: z = d;
   default: z = 1'bx;
endcase