Re: [myhdl-list] MEP 107 assessment

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

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On 06/09/2012 09:41 PM, Christopher Felton wrote:
> <snip>
>>>
>>> 1) avoid the issue by using the interpreter
>>> to do the lookup outside of the generators
>>
>> Are there any limitations to this as far as referencing and assignment goes?
>>
>
> Best of my knowledge there are no restrictions.  You just have to follow
> the strict coding pattern to locally reference attributes.  The
> attributes can *not* be used in the generator (this is for the current
> conversion support, not the proposed).  I have been surprised with some
> of my recent experiments, though.
>
> Off topic, what do we call a function with generators that models
> hardware and potentially convertible.  In Verilog we have /module/ but
> that overlaps with Python /module/.  VHDL we have /entity/ and
> /architecture/ but it is not a similar enough to use one of those terms.
>    We don't want to use /function/ because it is too general.  What is
> the most appropriate term, /MyHDL function/?
>
> Regards,
> Chris
>
>
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