Replicate 1 bit 16 times to give a 16 bit bus?

Posted by rick2047 on Aug 30, 2010; 3:09am
URL: http://nand2tetris-questions-and-answers-forum.52.s1.nabble.com/Replicate-1-bit-16-times-to-give-a-16-bit-bus-tp1386664.html

In my ALU design, I have used a certain logic which has to replicate a certain bit 16 times to make a 16 bit bus. Now this is trivial to do in the hardware, I just have to connect that one bit to 16 pins (not exactly considering the power problems, and that too can be solved by using a buffer). But I just cannot understand how to do this in the HDL.

Any suggestions?