diff --git a/src/fpu/fdivsqrt/fdivsqrtfsm.sv b/src/fpu/fdivsqrt/fdivsqrtfsm.sv
index a727e5536..0e2cba90e 100644
--- a/src/fpu/fdivsqrt/fdivsqrtfsm.sv
+++ b/src/fpu/fdivsqrt/fdivsqrtfsm.sv
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ module fdivsqrtfsm import cvw::*;  #(parameter cvw_t P) (
   assign FDivBusyE = (state == BUSY) | IFDivStartE; 
  
   // terminate immediately on special cases
-  assign FSpecialCaseE = XZeroE | | XInfE  | XNaNE |  (XsE&SqrtE) | (YZeroE | YInfE | YNaNE)&~SqrtE;
+  assign FSpecialCaseE = XZeroE | XInfE  | XNaNE |  (XsE&SqrtE) | (YZeroE | YInfE | YNaNE)&~SqrtE;
   if (P.IDIV_ON_FPU) assign SpecialCaseE = IntDivE ? ISpecialCaseE : FSpecialCaseE;
   else              assign SpecialCaseE = FSpecialCaseE;
   flopenr #(1) SpecialCaseReg(clk, reset, IFDivStartE, SpecialCaseE, SpecialCaseM); // save SpecialCase for checking in fdivsqrtpostproc
diff --git a/src/mmu/pmpchecker.sv b/src/mmu/pmpchecker.sv
index fd1243031..89c22c486 100644
--- a/src/mmu/pmpchecker.sv
+++ b/src/mmu/pmpchecker.sv
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ module pmpchecker import cvw::*;  #(parameter cvw_t P) (
   priorityonehot #(P.PMP_ENTRIES) pmppriority(.a(Match), .y(FirstMatch)); // combine the match signal from all the adress decoders to find the first one that matches.
 
   // Only enforce PMP checking for S and U modes or in Machine mode when L bit is set in selected region
-  assign EnforcePMP = (PrivilegeModeW != P.M_MODE) | |(L & FirstMatch); // *** switch to this logic when PMP is initialized for non-machine mode
+  assign EnforcePMP = (PrivilegeModeW != P.M_MODE) | (|(L & FirstMatch)); // *** switch to this logic when PMP is initialized for non-machine mode
 
   assign PMPInstrAccessFaultF     = EnforcePMP & ExecuteAccessF & ~|(X & FirstMatch) ;
   assign PMPStoreAmoAccessFaultM  = EnforcePMP & WriteAccessM   & ~|(W & FirstMatch) ;