Program for Asynchronous Counter

Introduction

Hello friends, In this post, we will learn how to write a simple program in VHDL for Asynchronous Counter.
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Program

library IEEE;
use IEEE.STD_LOGIC_1164.ALL;
use IEEE.STD_LOGIC_ARITH.ALL;
use IEEE.STD_LOGIC_UNSIGNED.ALL;

---- Uncomment the following library declaration if instantiating
---- any Xilinx primitives in this code.
--library UNISIM;
--use UNISIM.VComponents.all;

entity Asynchronous_Counter is
    Port ( clk : in  STD_LOGIC;
           resetp : in  STD_LOGIC;
           setp : in  STD_LOGIC;
           q : inout  STD_LOGIC_VECTOR (3 downto 0));
end Asynchronous_Counter;

architecture Behavioral of Asynchronous_Counter is

begin
process(clk,resetp,setp,q)
begin
if resetp='0' then
q<="0000";
elsif setp='0' then
q<="1111";
elsif clk='0' and clk'event then
q(0)<=not q(0);
end if;
if q(0)='0' and q(0)'event then
q(1)<=not q(1);
end if;
if q(1)='0' and q(1)'event then
q(2)<=not q(2);
end if;
if q(2)='0' and q(2)'event then
q(3)<=not q(3);
end if;
end process;
end Behavioral;