Implicit Vector to Boolean Conversion

When a vector signal is used as a conditional expression or as an argument to logical operators (e.g. &&, ||, !) it’s implicitly converted to scalar value 0 (false) if all vector bits are zero or to 1 (true) otherwise. It’s not clear in this case if such conversion was intentional or by mistake, and a scalar type or bitwise operator, such as &, |, or ~ was expected.

module ff(input clk, [7:0] d, rst, output [7:0] q);
    always_ff @(posedge clk) begin
        if (rst)                   // Implicit conversion of 'logic [7:0]' to boolean
            q <= 0;
        else
            q <= !d;               // Implicit conversion of 'logic [7:0]' to boolean
    end
endmodule

It may be better to explicitly compare the vector with zero (vec == 0 or vec != 0) if that’s your intent.

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Rule configuration

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144/severity/${path}={error|warning|info|ignore}