How Can Delays Be Implemented in VHDL Testbench Waveforms?

[HD555]

Hi, I have a small piece of code that will detect a rising edge and output a pulse for 2 clock cycles. I'm only doing this for simulation purposes and will not be porting this into a FPGA.

When using the after 10 ns after a statement, I know this is ignored during sythesis. How can I implement a delay and have it be shown on the testbench waveform?

Thanks. I'm using Xilinx's ISE WebPACK Software. Code is below.

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

entity rising_edge_detector_2ms is
    Port ( 
			  clk : in  STD_LOGIC;
           signal_input : in  STD_LOGIC;
			  out1, out2 : out STD_LOGIC;
           output : out  STD_LOGIC
			 );  
end rising_edge_detector_2ms;


architecture Behavioral of rising_edge_detector_2ms is

signal Q_FF, Q1_FF, Q2_FF : STD_LOGIC;

begin

	process(clk)
	begin
		if rising_edge(clk) then
			Q_FF <= signal_input after 20 ns;
		end if;
	end process;
	
	process(clk)
	begin
		if rising_edge(clk) then
			Q1_FF <= Q_FF  after 20 ns;
		end if;
	end process;
	
	process(clk)
	begin
		if rising_edge(clk) then
			Q2_FF <= Q1_FF  after 20 ns;
		end if;
	end process;
	
-- Final Output Through AND Gate
	out1 <= Q1_FF;
	out2 <= Q2_FF;
	output <= (not Q2_FF) and signal_input;

end Behavioral;

 

[Number2Pencil]

I've had to create a purely VHDL one-shot type of behavior..which is pretty annoying.

--5 second one shot
Process (onehertz, fivetrigger, reset)
	variable fiveint: integer range 0 to 4;
begin
	if (reset = '0') then
		fivesec <= '1';
		fiveint := 0;
	elsif (rising_edge(onehertz)) then
		if (fivetrigger = '0') then
			fiveint := 0;
			fivesec <= '1';
		elsif (fiveint = 4) then
			fivesec <= '0';
		else
			fiveint := fiveint + 1;
		end if;
	end if;	
end process;

Not truly a one-shot since the trigger has to stay on the whole time, but if you create a state machine where a certain state enables this trigger, you can do it.

My thought process was:

State 1 goes to State 2 when the input goes high
State 2 enables this counting process
State 2 goes back to State 1 when counting is done.

It's bootleg but I got an A so it's all good.