RE: [sv-bc] Naming of unnamed sequential blocks

Steven,

I was just explaining why the feature was put into the language; I'm not
against standardizing a default naming convention for the PLI.

I will mention that there is no standard for naming unnamed primitive
instances, which have been around longer than generate.

Dave


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven Sharp [mailto:sharp@cadence.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 3:53 PM
> To: mac@verisity.com; Vreugdenhil, Gordon; Rich, Dave
> Cc: sv-bc@eda.org
> Subject: RE: [sv-bc] Naming of unnamed sequential blocks
> 
> Dave Rich wrote:
> >They were thinking that there are times that you don't want others to
> >have access to locally declared variables, and other languages get
along
> >fine without having to name locally declared blocks.
> 
> The rules for generates don't allow access to the locally declared
> variables from the HDL.  The standard convention for the names is
> intended for consistency in such things as waveform dumping, PLI
> and user interfaces.  This is potentially useful, and defining a
> standard convention is cheap.
> 
> >When you use the PLI, you use iterators instead of accessing the
blocks
> >by name.
> 
> You can.  And if you get a handle using iterators, you can then ask
for
> a full hierarchical name.  Then you would expect to be able to access
> that object using the name you were given.
> 
> Steven Sharp
> sharp@cadence.com