RE: [sv-bc] DataTypes: friendly overview

From: Stuart Sutherland (stuart@sutherland-hdl.com)
Date: Thu Nov 11 2004 - 19:47:16 PST

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    Kathy,

    I know this is late, but this is the first chance I've had for a while to
    get back to e-mail. I have a suggestion for changing one paragraph. Its
    not a critical change. Feel free to use all, some, or none from my
    suggestion. The rest of the overview looks great. It would help, though to
    add just a few more examples that show the new capabilities being added

    > This extension for nets is limited to four-state data types
    > because of schedule constraints in proposing LRM changes. We
    > would have liked to propose two-state extensions as well. It
    > is not our intent to preclude the extension of other data
    > types to nets in the future.

    The extensions to net types are syntactically and semantically backward
    compatible with existing Verilog code. The extensions recommended at this
    time are limited to supporting 4-state types with nets. The recommended
    syntax and semantics have been carefully planned to allow future extensions,
    such as support for nets with 2-state types and real types. These
    additional extensions are not included at his time because of schedule
    constraints.

    Stu
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