Exposing a bi-directional bus from a circuit

[nrivard]

Imagine a device is connected to a multi-bit bus. This device can treat it both as an input and an output. Is this possible to create in Digital? My attempts at using a splitter/merger and setting D output to a "Data Bus" output did not work as expected when I added the circuit to a larger circuit.

Here is an unfinished example:

[hneemann]

This is actually not possible without further ado, since the splitter itself cannot work bidirectionally.

For this case there is a special bidirectional splitter, which can be switched in the direction.
See the EEPROMs (Library->DIL Chips->EEPROMs) in the library as an example.

[wtlprnft]

is that solution exportable to Verilog? I am trying to implement a circuit which has to intergrate an external bus for both reading and writing. Is that possible with bidirectional splitter?
many thanks for answering!

[wtlprnft]

and exportable to Verilog!

[nrivard]

I ended up skipping the splitter altogether as I don't think it helped in my case but the EEPROM circuit example showed me how to make tri-state "inputs" that can function as outputs as well. Thanks!