Re: [myhdl-list] Driving constants

[Jan D. <ja...@ja...>]

On 09/04/2011 11:26 AM, Sébastien Bourdeauducq wrote:
> On 09/03/2011 10:16 PM, Jan Decaluwe wrote:
>> I don't see what's messy about it.
>
> Ok, then here is some more background:
>
> I have an abstract class FunctionalUnit which implements dataflow
> processing units. This abstract class creates handshaking signals (ack,
> strobe) common to all functional units which are used to control the
> flow of data.
> The method ImplementControl is overloaded by derived classes to
> implement the actual handshaking logic, and returns instances. Now, when
> some functional units need to drive handshaking signals constants, and
> if it is not possible to build "constant drivers" instances, it becomes
> messy.

What would probably work is if such a method returns
an empty list, explicitly indicating that it has no
generators to contribute.

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