Re: AW: Strawman Ideas for SV-DC

Hi Shalom.

Nothing wrong with a tool beta-testing something nonstandard;
but this doesn't mean the tool is "ahead" -- it's just different
and nonstandard.

The problem is that there isn't yet anything close to "standard"
SV in any tool -- reason is that different manufacturers have
different priorities for feature implementation, and many
prefer to wait until the Std is stable before implementing something
later changed in the Std in an incompatible way.

The learning curve for SV right now is horribly shallow, and
adding features such as as-yet undecided analog constructs makes it
MUCH worse.

Already, to teach the full verilog language takes maybe six weeks
at about a 5 sem hr rate; 12 weeks to give reasonable team-ready
coding experience.

SV would take at least three times, maybe five times, as long,
even if frozen as-is. Even with C++ preparation.

I am not referring to a minimal course, but one giving a reading
knowledge of any arbitrary coding. A minimal verilog course would
be only a few days; SV a couple of weeks. How many project
managers want to pay a full-time engineer to go off for
weeks at a time?

On 07/15/2010 09:04 PM, Bresticker, Shalom wrote:
> Actually, in many cases tools implement enhancements that are ahead of the standards...
>
>> Don't you think that customers are getting sick and tired of
>> trying to use SV, when there isn't any such thing, just a
>> moving target of incompatible tools trying to keep up
>> with runaway standards ideas?
>
> shalom
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