> Double word is 64 bit, dont understand why this is confusing. In an ASCI, the definition of a word can be quite flexible. I've seen designs using 14 bit words, since 14 bits was all that was needed to represent the data to be held. I've also seen a 16 bit word used to hold a signed value, with the binary point before the last nibble, so it could hold -2047.9375 to +2047.9375. I might have that wrong. It gave me a headache at the time, but the synthesizer had no such problems.
Why not use u8, u16, u14, u32, u64, which we can all understand without confusion. Andrew