Finding the next in round-robin scheduling by bit twiddling

Question

Consider the following problem. You have a bit-string that represents the current scheduled slave in one-hot encoding. For example, \"00000100\" (with the leftmost bit being #7

Answer 1

Untested, but off the top of my head, I'd be surprised if this didn't produce ma reasonable synthesis... Has the advantage of being relatively readable (to me anyway) unlike typical bit-twiddling hacks.

for i in current'range loop
  current := rotate_left(current, 1);
  if or_reduce(mask and current) = '1' then
     current:= mask and current;
  end if;
end loop;