RE: [sv-bc] Asking for advice: modport enhancements

I suggest you do both. Open a mantis item and post the white paper
there, and also send it on the reflector and start an email discussion.

Shalom


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> From: owner-sv-bc@server.eda.org [mailto:owner-sv-bc@server.eda.org]
> On Behalf Of Jonathan Bromley
> Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 12:47 PM
> To: sv-bc@server.eda-stds.org
> Subject: [sv-bc] Asking for advice: modport enhancements
> 
> hi SV-BC,
> 
> I would value your collective advice on how best to
> approach this...
> 
> For some time I've been troubled by the way interfaces
> and modports don't quite hit the spot for designers.
> I need solutions to two big problems: abstraction of
> interconnect, and configurable (generatable) port lists
> for design IP.  Interfaces and modports get me close to
> both, but not close enough.  I now have what I believe
> to be a coherent set of proposals for significant
> enhancement of the modport construct, and I'm ready to
> post a "white paper" as a Mantis item.
> 
> I'm very conscious that sv-bc has a lot on its plate
> right now and I have no desire to disrupt that activity
> by adding a major new piece of work.  There would be
> some knock-on work for CC and EC too, but the bulk of it
> would fall to BC.
> 
> On the other hand, if I hold back for much longer, the
> changes would likely not make it into 1800-2008 - and thus
> something I feel *very* strongly about would probably not
> become available to designers within my working career.
> 
> Is there any appetite within sv-bc for such work?
> Should I:
> - just go ahead and post a Mantis, and let it take
>   its chances?
> - open an email discussion first, to refine the ideas
>   so that a fully-formed proposal can be prepared?
> - accept that it's too much to do for 1800-2008, and
>   simply hold off (frustrated) until later?
> 
> Thanks for your consideration
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> Jonathan Bromley, Consultant
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