Re: [vhdl-200x] Re: TBV2: Associative arrays proposal submitted


Subject: Re: [vhdl-200x] Re: TBV2: Associative arrays proposal submitted
From: Farrell Ostler (Farrell.Ostler@xilinx.com)
Date: Mon Apr 28 2003 - 09:16:26 PDT


Jim Goeke wrote:

>
> It may be how people have historically written models but should we continue to
> bank on that? In the past there were many tool constraints that prevented using
> anything but vectors, that is no longer the case. We have written complete
> (synthesizable) designs using integer based types for for everything except the
> usual cast of control bits where it doesn't make much sense. With properly
> ranged integer subtypes the tools now do the "right" thing.

Have you been bothered much by the fact that integers are not guaranteed
to have a range larger than -2^31-1 to 2^31-1?



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