Re: do configuration statements end with semicolon?

From: Steven Sharp (sharp@cadence.com)
Date: Mon Dec 15 2003 - 12:32:26 PST

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    From: Hemant Gupta <hgupta@bengal.Cadence.COM>
    Subject: Re: do configuration statements end with semicolon?
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    Hi,

    I believe we should have a semi-colon after configuration statements
    so as to be consistent with config and design statements and the
    examples in Section 13. We have proposed the same as a part of our
    errata submission. In our implementation, also, we follow the same
    rule.

    http://www.boyd.com/1364_btf/report/full_pr/372.html

    regards,
    Hemant.

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      | I found the following in a vendor application note:
      |
      | "Please note that the example
      | below only shows a semi-colon after the config and design
      | statements per the BNF, which is how [product name]
      | implemented configurations. At the time of this writing, it
      | has since been discovered that the Verilog-2001 committee
      | intended that all configuration statements, except the
      | endconfig, should end with a semi-colon and therefore
      | some EDA vendor implementation of configuration
      | blocks might not be consistent."
      |
      | I then looked in Section 13 and it seems to be inconsistent in the examples
    as
      | to whether the configuration statements end with semicolon.
      |
      | However, I have no memory, nor found no record, that
      | "the Verilog-2001 committee
      | intended that all configuration statements, except the
      | endconfig, should end with a semi-colon".
      |
      | The closest I found was in a mail by Tom Fitzpatrick at
      | http://boydtechinc.com/btf/archive/btf_1999/0462.html
      |
      | Does anyone have more information?
      |
      | Thanks,
      | Shalom
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