Illegal assignment: Cannot assign an unpacked type to a packed type

Question

In SystemVerilog I wrote:

module mult32x32_arith (
    input logic clk,             // Clock
    input logic reset,           // Reset
    output logic [63:0] product  // Miltiplication product
);

logic left_decoder, right_decoder, product_FF[63:0]={64{1'b0}};

    always_ff @(posedge clk, posedge reset) begin
        if (reset==1'b1)begin
            product <= product_FF;
        end
        else begin
            
        end
    end

But, I'm getting errors on this line:

product <= product_FF;

It says:

Error: mult32x32_arith.sv(19): Illegal assignment to type 'reg[63:0]' from type 'reg $[63:0]': Cannot assign an unpacked type to a packed type.

But, I don't understand what the problem is.

toolic · Accepted Answer · 2020-12-28T13:18:11.977

You declared product as packed and product_FF as unpacked. Refer to IEEE Std 1800-2017, section 7.4 Packed and unpacked arrays:

The term packed array is used to refer to the dimensions declared before the data identifier name. The term unpacked array is used to refer to the dimensions declared after the data identifier name

You need to declare them as the same data type. For example, to make them both packed, change:

logic left_decoder, right_decoder, product_FF[63:0]={64{1'b0}};

to:

logic left_decoder, right_decoder;
logic [63:0] product_FF = {64{1'b0}};

Illegal assignment: Cannot assign an unpacked type to a packed type

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