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From: John Sheahan <jrsheahan@o...>
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 21:11:02 +1100
Subject: Re: [oc] Real newbie questions
On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 09:48:23AM +0100, Joachim Str�mbergson wrote:
> (This turned into "Joachims 0.02 Euro of rambling on HW design"... ;-)
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> You can be an ace on the VHDL language, but it will not help you a bit (no
> pun intended) if you think in terms of programming, not HW. You should
> learn digital HW design and describe that in your choice of HDL language,
> not the other way around. I'll even go so far as saying that if you need to
> use fancy language constructs to implement your HW, then you have probably
> done something wrong [1]. (Normally data- vs control path separation,
> analysis of functionality.)
minor nit - 'fancy language constructs' can often have a place in
test benches / models of the things your code is talking to.
but definitely not in the code you want to synthesize.
I agree - if you cannot visualize the hardware your rtl is describing
there is (will be) a problem.
john
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