Subject: [vhdl-200x] Re: VHDL 200x request
From: Jim Lewis (Jim@synthworks.com)
Date: Fri Oct 10 2003 - 08:29:31 PDT
Parallel port and USB ports are used for license dongles.
Access to them would allow license access to be coded in VHDL.
On the other hand, I believe the environment group is planning
on having direct executing C. Does C have an API and/or library
that already does some of this type of stuff. I think it would
be far more effective to leverage some of the existing stuff
rather than re-creating our own.
Cheers,
Jim
Jayaram Bhasker wrote:
> Hello Ofer:
>
> Thank you very much for the feedback.
>
> We will consider your requested features: real-time clock, and random number generation.
> I did not understand:
>
>
>>>Another example could be accessing the parallel port or the USB port of the computer.
>
>
> Can you please elaborate?
>
> - bhasker
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ofer Hofman [mailto:ofer.h@sital.co.il]
> Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 3:21 AM
> To: Jayaram Bhasker
> Cc: Nir Hamzani
> Subject: VHDL 200x request
>
>
> Dear J. Bhasker,
>
> I have seen the VHDL-200x Testbench & Verification PPT and was very
> impressed. 200x looks like a very wide project.
>
> I am teaching & writing VHDL for over 13 years.
>
> One issue that comes up many times in my Test Benches is the ability
> to read the real time clock of the computer I am running simulation
> on, in particular, and accessing the host computer's hardware in
> general. Today these tasks are done through FLI (C) but there is no
> real reason why it could not be done through VHDL.
>
> A simple usage of the real time clock read is generation of random
> numbers. Benchmarking performance of a VHDL program run could be another.
>
> Another example could be accessing the parallel port or the USB port
> of the computer. With that available, one could license his VHDL code
> if sent in compiled format.
>
> Best Regards,
> Ofer Hofman
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