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

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

OK, but do you expect the MyHDL documentation to teach you basics of 
digital design?

On 05/02/2012 10:22 PM, David Arnold wrote:
> 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... 
> <mailto:td...@di...>> wrote:
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>> Why is would anyone not familiar with "Digital Circuit Design" be 
>> using MyHDL?
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>> 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?
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>>>> 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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