Re: [myhdl-list] MyHDL : The Case for a Better HDL

[Christopher F. <chr...@gm...>]

On 9/7/2012 2:25 AM, Jan Decaluwe wrote:
> On 09/07/2012 03:14 AM, Christopher Felton wrote:
>> Jan has posted an interesting blog post
>> "MyHDL : The Case for a Better HDL"
>> http://bit.ly/ToK6xg at the All Programmable
>> Planet, http://www.programmableplanet.com/.
>>
>> Be sure and check out the post and contribute
>> to the conversation.
>
> Yes, I have been invited by Max Maxfield to become a blogger
> on that site. I was looking for a good forum to tell
> "the MyHDL story" for some time, and this looks ideal. It
> should give us visibility and spur some interesting
> discussions :-)
>
> I'll try to blog every 2 weeks or so.
>

Has anyone else read the blog on APP?  Anyone read the comments?

As usual, I think the blog post Jan D. wrote is very good.  Jan has a 
good ability of explaining concepts.  If you have not read the post, it 
is worth reading, http://bit.ly/ToK6xg.

Jan's Post Covers the following topics::

    * Integer arithmetic
    * Constant representation.
    * Variables
    * RTL abstraction
    * Modern coding practices

For more information on the first topic, see Jan's "These Ints are Made 
For Countin'" essay http://jandecaluwe.com/hdldesign/counting.html.

For me, the "RTL abstraction" section touched on some important points. 
  How do you effectively teach complex digital systems architecture and 
implementation (HDL) and the low-level digital circuits?  I see this as 
a failure in the current education sytle.  We teach the digital systems 
and HDL the same as the digital circuits, from the bottom-up.  Even 
folks that are teaching themselves HDL appear to fall into folly.

@jan, since you implicitly mentioned always_seq we should consider a 
release, I will help as much as I can with a 0.8 release :)

Regards,
Chris