Truth Tables

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Requirement Summary

Related Issues: ISAC IR-2060

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VHDL Issue Number:        2060

Language_Version          VHDL-2002
Classification            Language Modeling Enhancement or Deficiency
Summary                   Include truth table for multi-input/multi-output logic.
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Key_Words_and_Phrases     truth table
Authors_Name              J D Russell
Authors_Phone_Number      39-295-4004
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Authors_Email_Address     jdrussel@rockwellcollins.com
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Current Status:           Forwarded

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Date Submitted:           26 January 2005
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Revision Number:          1
Date Last Revised:        05 February 2005

Description of Problem
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Complex logic functions with numerous inputs (with don't cares), and
numerous outputs (with don't cares), are difficult to express in VHDL.
They are easily expressed compactly with a simple truth table.

Proposed Resolution
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A syntax similar to that of Altera's AHDL would suffice.  Or something
like this:
    
    table (in1,in2,in3 :in; out1,out2 :out) begin
            0 , - , 1 ,      1  , -   ;
            1 , 1,  0 ,      0  , 0   ;
    end table;
    
    Outputs default to don't care for all inputs not explicitly defined.
    
    
    

VASG-ISAC Analysis & Rationale
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This should be forwarded to the Modeling and Productivity Group

VASG-ISAC Recommendation for IEEE Std 1076-2002
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TBD

VASG-ISAC Recommendation for Future Revisions
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TBD


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General Comments

Truth tables can be implemented by using constants and array types. Complex lookup tables and ROMs
can be defined more easily with functions, which offer conditional statements and loops. The function's
result can be stored in a constant to reduce the impact on the performance.

Constants and arrays are already used for the STD_LOGIC operator tables.

So I think the proposed syntax is only syntactic sugar, which might be used by only a handful people.

-- Main.PatrickLehmann - 2016-07-28

Non-supporters

-- Main.PatrickLehmann - 2016-07-28

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