RE: [vhdl-200x-ft] Revised FT-13: VHPI control binding

Françoise and Jim,

Thanks for Françoise's correction. I have added that, plus declarations of
constant VHPISUCCESS and VHPIFAILURE in the attached revised version of the
FT-13 proposal document.

Jim, could you please update the website with the doc and put it on the
agenda for review by the FT team? Thanks.

Cheers,

PA

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Francoise Martinolle [mailto:fm@cadence.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, 22 September 2004 03:53
> To: Peter Ashenden; vhdl-200x-ft@eda.org
> Cc: vhpi-pilot@eda.org
> Subject: Re: [vhdl-200x-ft] Revised FT-13: VHPI control binding
> 
> 
> One minor issue with the package VHPI is that the function 
> body of vhpi_control should return a value of FAILURE. 
> Perhaps we need to define 2 constants: SUCCESS and FAILURE 
> which are consistent with the values returned by the C vhpi 
> functions. vhpi functions 
> typically return
> 0 on success and non zero on failure.
> 
> Francoise
>         '
> At 04:50 PM 9/15/2004 +0930, Peter Ashenden wrote:
> >Folks,
> >
> >I had an action item from a previous meeting to discuss the proposed 
> >STOP, FINISH and RESET procedures with the VHPI tech team.  I did so 
> >quite a while back, but have only now updated the FT-13 
> document with 
> >the results of that discussion (see attached).  Sorry for the hiatus.
> >
> >In summary, my analysis is to retain the VHPI nomenclature, and to 
> >define a VHDL package that contains a foreign function bound to the 
> >vhpi_control function.  The VHPI specification defines how 
> the 'foreign 
> >attribute can be used to express such a binding.
> >
> >Jim, could you please put this back on the agenda for 
> further review?  
> >Many thanks.
> >
> >Cheers,
> >
> >PA
> >
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> >Dr. Peter J. Ashenden                        peter@ashenden.com.au
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