Re: [myhdl-list] MyHDL: Why Do We Need Signal Assignments?

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

Hi Chris:

Why not ask the question in the forum, let's make these
guys dizzy :-)

On 09/24/2012 07:55 PM, Christopher Felton wrote:
> On 9/23/2012 3:12 AM, Jan Decaluwe wrote:
>> I have justed posted a blog about signal assignments, why they are
>> needed and who MyHDL implements them.
>>
>> I feel these concepts are often misunderstood, which leads to
>> misunderstandings later on. I hope you like it.
>>
>> http://www.programmableplanet.com/author.asp?section_id=2438&doc_id=251153&
>>
>
> Good post as usual.  I appreciate the connection between procedural
> descriptions and concurrent descriptions.  Any HDL designer (or anyone
> that has ever written a line of HDL) can learn quite a bit from your posts.
>
> Now ... one of the items you eluted to in a previous thread was that in
> Python3, MyHDL "variables" won't need to be explicitly declared in the
> generator.  If I am not mistaken, often if a variable is used you have
> to use the @instance decorator and cannot take advantage of the @always*
> decorators (not true for all variables use cases but many).  Is this
> true or am I mistaken?
>
> Regards,
> Chris
>
>
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