Re: [myhdl-list] When to use @always, @instance and @always_comb

[Christopher L. <loz...@fr...>]

> Am I missing something here, why would the MyHDL documentation be
> expected to teach hardware design?
>
> Last week I used a Python package to allow me to read/write an Excel
> spreadsheet. I did not expect the documentation for that package to
> teach me how to use Excel. Why would it?

Great question.  The problem with MyHDL is that you have two
computational models, Python and Digital Circuit Design.    Unlike a
spreadsheet, which is not part of Python,  Digital Circuit Design is
part of MyHDL.  The documentation needs to highlight both or it gets
very confusing to people who are not already Digital Circuit Designers. 
Currently the documentation does a good job describing the python, but
not such a good job describing digital circuit design.  My proposal was
a way to make the Digital Circuit Models part more explicit.   Push them
forward, as the python part is already taken care of.  IMHO that would
make things much clearer.

Then there is the argument about MyHDL being a tiny community, and how
important it is for us to reach out to the larger python community.  But
in an open source world, where developers do things for their own
benefit, that does not carry much weight. 

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Christopher Lozinski

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