Given the width of a bit vector, and the width of a word, returns the count of words needed to contain the bit vector, even if the last word will be partially full. You must compute any pad bits externally using word_pad.
Pass the function values which, at elaboration time, are either constants or expressions which evaluate to a constant. Then use the return value as an integer for a localparam, genvar, etc...
function integer word_count;
input integer bit_vector_width;
input integer word_width;
integer word_count_raw;
begin
word_count_raw = bit_vector_width / word_width;
word_count = (bit_vector_width % word_width == 0) ? word_count_raw : word_count_raw + 1;
end
endfunction