RE: VHDL-AMS PLI

 

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>From: owner-vhdl-ams@eda.org [mailto:owner-vhdl-ams@eda.org] 
>On Behalf Of Sameer Kher
>Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 7:23 AM
>To: vhdl-ams@vhdl.org
>Subject: VHDL-AMS PLI and a Question about the Simulation Cycle

>My first question was about whether there are any plans for a
>standardized Programming Language Interface for VHDL-AMS. I did come
>across the VHDL PLI site http://www.vhdl.org/vhdlpli/ but am not sure
>what the status is there.


Sameer,

Some years ago, I was personally interested in the issue of VHPI-AMS.
At that time I organized, and became chair of, the VHPI-AMS Subcommittee
of the IEEE 1076.1 Working Group. At that time, some interest was expressed
by people from several EDA companies.

However, the work ground to a halt after a while due to several factors:

- VHPI, on which VHPI-AMS was to be based, was not yet standardized.
- Lack of interest in this issue by the major EDA vendors.
- My personal inability to devote volunteer time to the effort
  (The work was sponsored by CANDE in the first year). 

I have been interested in developing the standard for many years;
your question has spurred me to consider whether it is time to revive
this effort. The need may be acute enough now to spark a renewed interest.

I have just reposted the subcommittee website at http://www.lynguent.com/vhpi-ams.
It reflects the state of the work as of 2003.

I invite you and everyone else who is reading this to visit the site, think
about the objectives and need for VHPI-AMS, and voice your opinion as to
whether we as an industry should make it happen. Unless someone can point
me to a more appropriate forum to ask this question, I would like to see the
discussion here.

Martin

Martin Vlach
Lynguent, Inc.
2828 SW Corbett Ave, Ste 122
Portland, OR 97201-4830

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