Aw: [vhdl-200x] Next Meeting: Thursday March 17 + posted 3/3 minutes

 
Is there anywhere a list of what has been proposed/rejected/approved already?

My pet topics:

int32, int64, int128, uint32, uint64, uint128, with 0x80000000 etc guaranteed working.
2's complement assumed, these Cyber205s are dead for > 20 years and not many people had one.
And probably no one doing VHDL.
Verifying a 64 bit multiplier is a r. pain if you cannot even write the numbers you want to see.

Easy access to the bits in an integer. Yes, I'm a heretic.

overloading := and <= ... I'm already running, seeking shelter

The equivalent of the C function system()... Could help to get your
login name , date, time, machine name and many other things into a file...
Or to prepare some test bed functions in Matlab or C etc.

Maybe writing / reading unix-style pipes. Would ease co-simulation
with 3rd party soft/hardware.

And, while I have not yet tried the 2008 type generics, my first impression
was that one has to explicitely give the type in the generic map section.
It would be nice if one could simply write
   signal intermediate_result: arg1'type; inside an entity declaration.

Maybe that would require things like "arg1'type'high downto arg1'type'low"
to be really useful.

(Kann sein, das ich hier eine offene Tür einrenne.)

regards, Gerhard

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Von: Jim Lewis <Jim@synthworks.com>

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