Re: [sv-ac] mantis 1550

Hi Jonathan:

The usage you describe aligns with the intuition
that I mentioned in an earlier mail to Dave Rich.

I also suggested in an earlier mail to Ed Cerny 
that we might need to ask for SV-BC help on this.

I've copied SV-EC and SV-BC.

Thanks,

John H.

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> Note that users of clocking blocks already expect to
> be able to detect change events on an input clockvar.
> This is very, very similar to the detection of events
> on $past() or $sampled().
> 
> I have not been following this discussion as closely
> as I should, and I don't have much expertise to 
> contribute to sv-ac, but I would urge you all to 
> share this issue with sv-ec and sv-bc.  I accept that
> it raises some tricky problems, but I think users will
> be mightily confused to find they can't detect 
> changes on the result of $sampled() or $past(), where
> the user was expecting to get a deglitched and possibly
> delayed version of a signal and wanted to use changes
> on that conditioned signal to trigger downstream 
> activity.
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