Re: [vhdl-200x] Proposal for improved physical types

There are two other proposals that suggests increasing the minimum size of
integer to 64 bits, but I personally feel the ArbitraryIntegers proposal is
a better and more robust solution.

http://www.eda-twiki.org/cgi-bin/view.cgi/P1076/LongIntegers
http://www.eda-twiki.org/cgi-bin/view.cgi/P1076/ExtendedIntegers


On 14 January 2015 at 04:12, Tristan Gingold <tgingold@free.fr> wrote:

> On 13/01/15 18:57, Patrick Lehmann wrote:
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> [...]
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> > I hope these are three convincing use cases for physical types in
>
>> everyday life :)
>>
>> So YES, we need 64 bit for physical types.
>>
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> My usual comment: VHDL has allowed 64 bit physical types since 1987.
> So you just need to ask your vendor to support it.
>
> Tristan.
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