Re: [myhdl-list] What techniques can I use to avoid repeating myself in myhdl code?

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

On 5/15/2013 3:08 PM, Keerthan jai.c wrote:
>> This is a typical difficulty: with limited RTL experience it
>> is often difficult to make the distinction between limitations
>> imposed by synthesis, and MyHDL itself.
>
> This is true, I ended up doing proof of concept work in verilog and
> migrated to myhdl to use python for algorithmic data generation. MyHDL
> certainly facilitates fine grained control for distributing data across
> memories.
>
>
>> I'm sure people will be interested in reviewing your code and
>> giving feedback.
> It is a funded project, so I will have to look into the terms. I will try
> to share the code with the community ASAP!
>
>> But there's the point already. Those arbitrary data structures are
>> not there as such in Verilog/VHDL. So there is the nontrivial difficulty
>> on how to map them into those target languages, and how generic
>> this should be.
> It is implied that references to these data structures should point to
> MyHDL primitives.
> For example, MemorySubsystem['a'].tag_memory[2].dout, which is a MyHDL
> Signal object. (Overly complex example to show the possibilities). I will
> search the mailing list and codify my ideas sometime next month.
>

Here are some links and short description:

This was the first proposal to the mailing-list:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.myhdl/2191/focus=2515

The MEP was first posted to the mailingl=list some discussion
and then was created on the wiki.  Here is Jan's first assessment
of the MEP after the first wiki write-up (I think that is the
correct order of things).
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.myhdl/2659

Second assessment after some changes and conversations:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.myhdl/2690

A follow-up by me based on what is currently supported:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.myhdl/2698

An inquiry about MEP-107 status:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.myhdl/2794/focus=2797

A recap
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.myhdl/2959

I think that is most of them,
Chris Felton