BTF Nov 7th Rough Notes

From: Clifford E. Cummings (cliffc@europa.com)
Date: Tue Dec 02 1997 - 09:23:15 PST


Top 5
1) Generates
Issues: index-increment values
Action Item - Kurt Baty has sent the BNF

Action Item - Cliff Cummings provide proposal verbiage (started)

<p>2) Multidimensional Arrays
Syntax has been selected -
Action Item - Mike McNamera to do the BNF

Action Item - Vivek Sagdeo to provide proposal verbiage for
multidimensional arrays

3) File IO Proposal -
Excellent proposal by Mike McNamera sent
Action Item - BNF

Action Item - proposal verbiage

<p>4) Re-Entrant Tasks (recursive tasks and functions) -
Settling on "automatic" keyword
Action Item - Cliff Cummings to do the BNF (started and sent)

Action Item - Cliff Cummings to provide proposal verbiage (started)

<p>5) Configuration (recursive tasks and functions) -
Settling on "automatic" keyword
Action Item - Cliff Cummings to do the BNF (started and sent)
Action Item - Cliff Cummings to provide proposal verbiage

19) Tom to complete Arithmetic proposal by 2nd week of December.

<p>reg r; // Syntax error - same name space

generate
  for (i=0; i<1000; i=i+500)
    for (j=0; j<1000; j=j+500)
      reg r;
endgenerate

Hierarchical references
\r[1][1]
\r[1][501]
\r[501][1]
\r[501][501]

cannot do variable r[i][j] references

\*name .

Referencing a column or row shall not be permitted

<p>structure mwr
  reg r;
  wire w;
endstructure

Vivek Sagdeo
408-991-2160

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