Re: [myhdl-list] Simplifying Interfaces

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

On 11/7/2014 9:05 AM, Wesley New wrote:
> Did anyone ever come up with a good example of this?
>

Interfaces have been implemented in 0.9-dev, do you
mean has a succinct example been generated as a cookbook
or tutorial?

I have a basic example here:
http://www.fpgarelated.com/showarticle/544.php

Regards,
Chris

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> On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 4:56 AM, Christopher Felton <chr...@gm...>
> wrote:
>
>> On 7/5/12 11:29 AM, Tom Dillon wrote:
>>>
>>> On 07/04/2012 02:22 PM, Christopher Felton wrote:
>>>> <snip>
>>>>>> Anyone else have an idea for an example?  I think for the example to
>> be
>>>>>> useful, you would want a design that you would use multiple modules
>> and
>>>>>> have some interface between.  But the interface would be small
>> (limited
>>>>>> number of signals in the class) so the the example would be
>> digestible.
>>>>> Maybe something based on complex numbers, as Tom D has
>>>>> hinted. One could represent them as a class instance,
>>>>> or even as a tuple.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> I was worried if the complex number example was used some
>>>> might expect operator overload.  I have been waffling if
>>>> this would be a good example.
>>>
>>> I think the example would have to show why we would not try to overload
>>> operators.
>>>
>>
>> I agree, which, IMO, requires a little bit of *ART*.
>> There are many concepts that need to pulled together and
>> succinctly explained.  I do not want set incorrect
>> expectations.
>>
>> I don't know if I see a good way to explain that operator
>> overloading is appropriate for a sequence of instructions
>> but not for a hardware description (concurrent processes).
>> Or if it is absent if it will raise questions.
>>
>> I don't if a plain "signal container" example would be a
>> better fit.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Chris
>>
>>
>>
>>
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