Subject: Re: [vhdl-200x] Re: [vhdl-200x-dta] Object oriented VHDL
From: Paul J. Menchini (mench@mench.com)
Date: Wed May 14 2003 - 06:29:43 PDT
Hamish and all,
>>>I was wondering if anyone has been looking at a more object-oriented
>>>type system for VHDL - since the competion for simulating systems
>>>seems to be C++ (SystemC) and SystemVerilog, and they both have that.
>> There was a great deal of work a few years ago. See
>> http://eda.org/oovhdl. I don't think this completely up to date, but
>> it does contain the two proposals that were ultimately voted upon.
> There's some detailed SUAVE information here:
> http://www.ashenden.com.au/suave.html
Thanks--I'd forgotten about that site.
> This proposal looks very good. I think it makes sense to use the
> Ada'95 concepts and syntax. I could start using some of these features
> immediately, if they were available. Unfortunately it looks like it
> lost out to Objective VHDL, which isn't going anywhere either.
Well, as the group is dormant, I don't see that this group has to abide
by their decision to go forward with Objective VHDL. We can revisit the
whole thing, if we desire.
Paul
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