Single Die Roll Counter Wrap Around Nested Ternary Conditional

Question

I have to emulate a single die roll, therefore it needs to wrap back to one at 6. `D1 and `D6 correspond to my 3-bit state encoding of the die at value 1 an 6, respectively. in corresponds to the switch roll, if the switch is on then the dice is rolling and value increments if not then it simply equals the last value given. I need equal probability so no I can't just ignore any values.

My problem is this:
I am trying to use a ternary conditional within one.
I'm hoping to stop the roll at `D6 and just wrap to `D1, if not then `D6.

assign next  = in ?((count == `D6) ? `D1 :(count + 1)) : count;

DFF state_register(clk, next, state);

I don't think my conditional is right. Any help on reading it properly?

Answer 1

Found the answer:

it's correct expcet 'D6 needs to be D6. :) D6 because i defined it above my module. I just used an apostrophe which it is not.

Besides, how does this all work? Well ternary conditionals work as so: variable = conditional ? true : false;

so next = count if my in is false.

Now what I have here is when it is true there is a nested ternary conditional:

''(count == `D6) ? 'D1 : (count + 1)``

so if count is equal to my D6 (my die has a value of 6) then I need it to wrap around toD1 (die of value 1), because the die here can't have value 7, 8, 9, etc. We want the counting to wrap back around.

Therefore,

when in is true and count is not D6 then I count up. when ``in`` is true and ``count`` isD6 then I make next equal to `D1 when in is false then next is just equal to count, meaning it stays current and no "roll" is recorded.

Hope that all makes sense!