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

[David A. <da...@po...>]

If you already know Python, and want to learn digital design, MyHDL is attractive. Plus, there are assertions that it's actually better than VHDL or Verilog anyway.




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On 02/05/2012, at 22:03, Tom Dillon <td...@di...> wrote:

> 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. 
>> 
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