Basic Coding Practices Parameters

These parameters belong to the Basic coding rules section of the Coding standards tab of the HDL Code Generation > Global Settings pane of the Configuration Parameters dialog box. Use these parameters to customize basic coding rules that are specified by the Industry standard guidelines. These rules correspond to naming conventions that your design uses.

Check for duplicate names

Specify whether to check for duplicate names in the design. This check corresponds to CGSL-1.A.A.5 of the Industry standard guidelines.

Settings

Default: On

On: Check for duplicate names.
Off: Do not check for duplicate names.

Dependency

To clear the Check for duplicate names check box, set the HDL coding standard parameter to Industry.

Command-Line Information

To set this property:

Create an HDL coding standard customization object.
```
cso = hdlcoder.CodingStandard('Industry');
```
Set the DetectDuplicateNamesCheck property of the HDL coding standard customization object.
For example, to disable the check for duplicate names, enter:
```
cso.DetectDuplicateNamesCheck.enable = false;
```
Set the HDLCodingStandardCustomizations property to the HDL coding standard customization object, specify the coding standard, and generate code.
For example, if your DUT is sfir_fixed/symmetric_fir, enter:
```
makehdl('sfir_fixed/symmetric_fir', 'HDLCodingStandard','Industry', ...
        'HDLCodingStandardCustomizations',cso);
```

Check for HDL keywords in design names

Specify whether to check for HDL keywords in design names. This check corresponds to CGSL-1.A.A.3 of the Industry standard guidelines.

Settings

Default: On

On: Check for HDL keywords in design names.
Off: Do not check for HDL keywords in design names.

Dependency

To clear the Check for HDL keywords in design names check box, set the HDL coding standard parameter to Industry.

Command-Line Information

To set this property:

Create an HDL coding standard customization object.
```
cso = hdlcoder.CodingStandard('Industry');
```
Set the HDLKeywords property of the HDL coding standard customization object.
For example, to disable the check for HDL keywords in design names, enter:
```
cso.HDLKeywords.enable = false;
```
Set the HDLCodingStandardCustomizations property to the HDL coding standard customization object, specify the coding standard, and generate code.
For example, if your DUT is sfir_fixed/symmetric_fir, enter:
```
makehdl('sfir_fixed/symmetric_fir', 'HDLCodingStandard','Industry', ...
        'HDLCodingStandardCustomizations',cso);
```

Check module, instance, entity name length

Specify whether to check module, instance, and entity name length. This check corresponds to CGSL-1.A.B.1 of the Industry standard guidelines.

Settings

Default: On

On

Check module, instance, and entity name length.

Minimum: Minimum name length, specified as a positive integer. The default is 2.
Maximum: Maximum name length, specified as a positive integer. The default is 32.

Off

Do not check module, instance, and entity name length.

Dependency

To clear the Check module, instance, entity name length check box, set the HDL coding standard parameter to Industry.

Command-Line Information

To set this property:

Create an HDL coding standard customization object.
```
cso = hdlcoder.CodingStandard('Industry');
```
Set the ModuleInstanceEntityNameLength property of the HDL coding standard customization object.
For example, to enable the check for module, instance, and entity name length, with 5 as the minimum length and 30 as the maximum length, enter:
```
cso.ModuleInstanceEntityNameLength.enable = true;
cso.ModuleInstanceEntityNameLength.length = [5 30];
```
Set the HDLCodingStandardCustomizations property to the HDL coding standard customization object, specify the coding standard, and generate code.
For example, if your DUT is sfir_fixed/symmetric_fir, enter:
```
makehdl('sfir_fixed/symmetric_fir', 'HDLCodingStandard','Industry', ...
        'HDLCodingStandardCustomizations',cso);
```

Check signal, port, and parameter name length

Specify whether to check signal, port, and parameter name length. This check corresponds to CGSL-1.A.C.3 of the Industry standard guidelines.

Settings

Default: On

On

Check signal, port, and parameter name length.

Minimum: Minimum name length, specified as a positive integer. The default is 2.
Maximum: Maximum name length, specified as a positive integer. The default is 40.

Off

Do not check signal, port, and parameter name length.

Dependency

To clear the Check signal, port, and parameter name length check box, set the HDL coding standard parameter to Industry.

Command-Line Information

To set this property:

Create an HDL coding standard customization object.
```
cso = hdlcoder.CodingStandard('Industry');
```
Set the SignalPortParamNameLength property of the HDL coding standard customization object.
For example, to enable the check for signal, port, and parameter name length, with 5 as the minimum length and 30 as the maximum length, enter:
```
cso.SignalPortParamNameLength.enable = true;
cso.SignalPortParamNameLength.length = [5 30];
```
Set the HDLCodingStandardCustomizations property to the HDL coding standard customization object, specify the coding standard, and generate code.
For example, if your DUT is sfir_fixed/symmetric_fir, enter:
```
makehdl('sfir_fixed/symmetric_fir', 'HDLCodingStandard','Industry', ...
        'HDLCodingStandardCustomizations',cso);
```