Re: [myhdl-list] Migen logic design toolbox - now with simulator

[Sébastien B. <seb...@mi...>]

On 03/16/2012 10:03 PM, Jan Decaluwe wrote:
> When Migen claims that the "event-driven" paradigm is
> too general, what it really dumps is procedural support
> in your HDL descriptions - the interesting stuff.

This isn't entirely fair (I will not even mention the impolite bits 
above). First, procedures in V*HDL can often be easily converted to bits 
of Python code that manipulate the lower layer bits - admittedly in a 
less elegant way (though perhaps easier to understand), but it can be 
done. Second, for synthesis those procedures always need to "execute" in 
one clock cycle, which seriously limits their real usefulness. Also, 
this while thing has little to do with event-driven vs. cycle-based.

S.