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

[Tom D. <td...@di...>]

Why is would anyone not familiar with "Digital Circuit Design" be using 
MyHDL?


On 05/02/2012 07:34 PM, Christopher Lozinski wrote:
>> 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.
>