Re: continued 1364 BTF work

From: Steven Sharp (sharp@cadence.com)
Date: Thu Oct 14 2004 - 11:42:35 PDT

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    >Jonathan Bradford's proposal, at the end of
    >
    > http://www.eda.org/sv-bc/hm/1910.html
    >
    >seems like one reasonable approach to consider. The idea is to
    >allow a packed type identifier, enclosed in angle braces < >,
    >to be used in net declarations where now only signing and packed
    >dimensions are allowed.

    I don't believe that the angle braces are necessary. I don't think
    there is an ambiguity that requires them. There may need to be some
    additional lookahead in parsing, to determine whether an identifier
    is a type name or the net name, but I think this problem already
    exists in SV. It is syntactically very similar to a parameter
    declaration, which also starts with a keyword followed by an optional
    type and then the parameter name(s). If you can parse parameter
    declarations without angle braces, then I think you can parse net
    declarations pretty much the same way.

    Steven Sharp
    sharp@cadence.com

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