Re: [myhdl-list] Decorator Question

[Ben <ben...@gm...>]

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 09:17, Jan Decaluwe <ja...@ja...> wrote:
> On 05/03/2011 09:57 PM, Christopher Lozinski wrote:
>> I just finished the first draft of the translation of Martin Gaitan's
>> Introductory document to English.
>>
>> I am sure I made some mistakes.  But I know I did not get Generators
>> right.  It is not too hard to understand them in Python.  But I think my
>> larger problem is understanding what they represent in hardware.  I
>> presume that my mental model of hardware is too simplistic.
>>
>> And it is not just me.  I suspect that other newbies will have a hard
>> time understanding generators.
>>
>> So what do generators represent in hardware?  what is the difference
>> between @instance, @always, and @always_comb from a hardware perspective?
>
> http://www.myhdl.org/doc/current/manual/modeling.html#rtl-modeling
> http://www.myhdl.org/doc/current/manual/reference.html#decorator-functions
> http://myhdl.org/doku.php/meps:mep-100
>

Let me also point you to another advise from Jan D. to you dating from March 31:

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=27287048

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 11:13, Jan Decaluwe <ja...@ja...> wrote:
> On 03/29/2011 10:07 PM, Christopher Lozinski wrote:
>> I know a lot about semiconductor manufacturing, but very little about
>> digital electonics.  This MyHDL stuff looks hugely interesting, but hard
>> to wrap my head around.
>
> To avoid disappointments, it may be wise to start by
> reading an introductory text to digital electronics
> and synthesis first. Starting with MyHDL before this
> is probably not the right approach, because it assumes
> implicit knowledge, especially about limitations :-)
> (Until someone writes the book "Introduction to
> digital design using MyHDL" of course :-))