Subject: Re: [vhdl-200x] Re: [vhdl-200x-dta] Object oriented VHDL
From: Mark Zwolinski (mz@ecs.soton.ac.uk)
Date: Tue May 20 2003 - 08:27:09 PDT
Dear All,
The other aspect that is related to this and has become moribund is the
work on interface design and channels. The working group notes are still
on-line at http://www.eda-twiki.org/sid/ . There was a product - VHDL+ - that
implemented some of these ideas, although it didn't quite look like
"real" VHDL.
The team working on VHDL+ went to a spin-out company
http://www.spiratech.com/ (I hope they don't mind the publicity!).
Mark Zwolinski
Paul J. Menchini wrote:
> 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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