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

[Jan D. <ja...@ja...>]

On 05/03/2012 07:26 AM, Christopher Felton wrote:
> On 5/2/12 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.
>>
>>
>> d
>
> There seems to be interest in the above; Python programmer to MyHDL
> hardware describer :).  The question is where should this
> information/tutorial live (and who is going to write it).
>
> "HDL for programmers" or "MyHDL for Python Programmers"?  I think this
> would be a separate tutorial that someone would need to put together.
> This would take some *art* to imagine how to concisely transition the
> world of Python free programming to describing hardware.  Part of it
> would be to first teach digital systems; the "what" is being
> described/modeled.
>
> I would imagine the low-level flip-flop, gates, etc would not be covered
> in such a tutorial.  It would be you have N inputs and M outputs of a
> digital system and how do you describe the behavior such that the
> description is syntheziable most likely by FPGA tools.

Exactly!

> I think most agree the manual isn't the right spot for a tutorial of
> this nature.  There are folks on this list that could write such a
> tutorial but I don't know if anyone has the bandwidth.

Right again!




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