Unexpected high impedance output - verilog

Question

I'm writing an ALU for a processor I'm designing (first RTL project) and I'm getting a high impedance output on ALU_out when I run my testbench, even though the flags do get set and are output correctly.
module alu(
input clk,
input reset,
input [7:0] A, B,
input [3:0] Op_Sel,
output [7:0] ALU_out,
output C, V, N, Z
);
reg [8:0] Result = 0;
reg [8:0] cn_temp = 0;
reg [7:0] v_temp = 0;
reg carry = 0;
reg overflow = 0;
reg negative = 0;
reg zero = 0;
assign ALU_Out = Result[7:0];
assign C = carry;
assign V = overflow;
assign N = negative;
assign Z = zero;
always #*
begin
if (reset)
begin
Result = 0;
cn_temp = 0;
v_temp = 0;
carry = 0;
overflow = 0;
negative = 0;
zero = 0;
end
end
always #(posedge clk)
begin
case(Op_Sel)
4'b0000: // Addition
begin
Result = A + B;
negative = Result[7];
zero = (Result[7:0] == 8'b00000000);
carry = Result[8];
v_temp = A[6:0] + B[6:0];
overflow = v_temp[7] ^ carry;
end
.
.
//The rest of the instructions
.
.
.
endcase
end
endmodule
//My testbench
module alu_testbench();
reg clk;
reg reset;
reg [7:0] A;
reg [7:0] B;
reg [3:0] Op_Sel;
wire [7:0] ALU_out;
wire C, V, N, Z;
always begin
#1
clk = ~clk;
end
initial begin
clk = 0;
reset = 0;
#1
reset = 1;
#1
reset = 0;
end
initial begin
#10
A=2;
B=3;
Op_Sel = 4'b0000;
#10
A=1;
end
alu alu (
.clk(clk),
.A(A),
.B(B),
.Op_Sel(Op_Sel),
.ALU_out(ALU_out),
.C(C),
.V(V),
.N(N),
.Z(Z));
endmodule
I believe I connected up the module to the testbench (through a wire), so why am I getting high impedance on ALU_out?

Answer 1

This was a tricky typo. You mistakenly used an upper-case "O" in the ALU_Out signal name. Since Verilog is case-sensitive, this is a different signal from ALU_out. It is not mandatory to declare all signals in Verilog. However, you can use the following compiler directive in your code to help catch this type of common problem:
`default_nettype none
Your simulator should generate an error.
To fix it, change:
assign ALU_Out = Result[7:0];
to:
assign ALU_out = Result[7:0];
My simulators also generated a warning message because you didn't drive the reset input of alu. Here is the fix:
alu alu (
.clk(clk),
.reset(reset), /// <------ add this
.A(A),
.B(B),
.Op_Sel(Op_Sel),
.ALU_out(ALU_out),
.C(C),
.V(V),
.N(N),
.Z(Z));