Re: [myhdl-list] MEP - keep hierarchy in conversion

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

On 10/02/2013 10:11 AM, Per Karlsson wrote:
> Enforcing "top-level convertibility" at all levels of the design
> would be a huge step backwards for MyHDL. I have not looked into
> MEP107, it may take away some of that sting, but that will not help a
> pre-MEP107 design (such as mine). Not even my top module is
> "top-level convertible", I have a script to wrap it for conversion.

That sounds messy.

I don't understand what is so hard about top-level convertiblity.
I think it is good practive to enforce it at all levels where
you want entry points in the hierarchy.

Of course, if there are good technical reasons we can consider
to lift some restrictions on top-level convertibility. Note
that some constraints were caused by the limitations of the
target HDLs at a given time. In the mean time, it is well
possible that some of those restrictions have become
obsolete.


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