#8 HWCompiler is unable to evaluate indexed actor parameters

[Anders Carlsson]

Two equivalent networks are attached. One has explicit integer actor parameters and one identifier per actor instance. This network passes HDL synthesis. The other has uses list comprehensions to instantiate actors, and loops to connect them. The other network fails HDL synthesis, when generating instances. (The top level HDL is generated).

In addition, there is a network that passes the list comprehension index variable as parameter to the actor. This also fails HDL synthesis.

These problems severely limits the usefulness of parametric network for hardware generation.

[Anders Carlsson]