Re: [myhdl-list] delays in VHDL conversion

[Henry G. <he...@ca...>]

On 08/02/15 22:22, Josy Boelen wrote:
<snip>
> Actually the converted code is wrong, the statements like:
>      constant lowTime: integer := 10;
>      wait for lowTime ns;
>
> are incorrect, they should either be:
>      constant lowTime: integer := 10;
>      wait for lowTime * 1.0 ns;
>
> or:
>      constant lowTime: time := 10.0 ns;
>      wait for lowTime ;
>
> Should be easy to fix in the MyHDL code.

You mean in the conversion routines? The easiest way I can think of is 
to replace the "ns" string with "* 1.0 ns"
here:
https://bitbucket.org/jandecaluwe/myhdl/src/b07b52398020b3bd737d0b4f1574f0d94eefccb5/myhdl/conversion/_toVHDL.py?at=default#cl-970

No doubt that will break other things though? Is there a reason why 
there can't always be a multiplier (other than code neatness)?

Henry