Re: Frequency Domain and Noise Domain

Marq,

> As a suggestion, there is an excellent Forum on Ken Kundert's Designer's 
> Guide website (www.designers-guide.org/Forum) with a lot of traffic on 
> both design/simulation related issues, as well as language design. There 
> is even a specific VHDL-AMS section on the forum with all VHDL-AMS 
> related discussions:
> 
>         http://www.designers-guide.org/Forum/YaBB.pl?board=vhdlams

Thanks for pointing us to Ken's web site. I think this is an excellent 
suggestion.

> By the way, I do think the discussion of the last weeks has been 
> insightful for language discussions as well: if a feature is missing, is 
> that a tool vendor's problem, or should the standardization community 
> also be involved. Sometimes a solution chosen as elegant and efficient 
> from a language design point of view might fail to connect with the 
> user's view on that particular solution. That's not something that an 
> ordinary user is able (or willing) to analyse and distinguish -- the 
> user has a problem and it needs to be solved. If it turns out to be a 
> vendor/tool related issue, we can still ask the discussion to be moved 
> to, for instance, the Designer's Guide forum.

I share your point of view. I can understand that it might not be always 
obvious to figure out if a particular issue is relevant to the language 
definition, to the use of the language related to modeling issues or to 
its implementation in a tool.
There is no claim that the current VHDL-AMS language definition is 
definitive and is addressing all possible needs. It is the charter of 
the working group to bring clarifications, study proposals for changes 
or additions in the language and update the Language Reference Manual 
accordingly (re the WG Operating Procedures document which is available 
on the 1076.1 web site). Clearly, any reference to a particular tool or 
vendor should be avoided. My point is that discussion in the mailing 
list should stay within the WG charter, so anybody willing to contribute 
should be aware of it. The 1076.1 mailing list is not a user forum.

> Regards,
> Marq Kole

Best regards,
Alain Vachoux