Re: [myhdl-list] CHIP, a myhdl like project

[Sébastien B. <seb...@mi...>]

On 10/17/2011 03:07 PM, Christopher Felton wrote:
> Ok you lost me here.  Best of my knowledge, most simulators are event
> based simulators.  They have event queues and at each simulation cycle
> the event queues are inspected.  Once all events are processed, the
> simulator moves on to the next cycle.  A cycle-based simulation without
> events and event queues would need to do a lot of explicit checking and
> unneeded execution without the queues.  I don't understand how a cycle
> based simulation without events is faster?

See Verilator for an open-source example.

S.