$sv-ec Re: SV APIs (Assertion)


Subject: $sv-ec Re: SV APIs (Assertion)
From: David W. Smith (david.smith@synopsys.com)
Date: Wed Oct 02 2002 - 15:36:49 PDT


I forwarding this since it bounced.

Regards
David

David W. Smith
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-----Original Message-----

Kevin,

> PS: From what I remember of X11 programming, the mechanisms for
> communicating button clicks to call-backs are essentially event-driven

> (through a variation of "select"), so re-implementing it in an
> event-driven multi-threaded language like SV wouldn't be a bad idea
> :-)
>
Feel free to write whatever you want in SV. But don't force me to
rewrite the millions of lines of code that we already have. For those,
SV still requires a way to connect to "legacy" C code. C libraries have
been used as the backplane of tool interoperability for more decades
than I can remember.

However, I do think you make a very good point: everything we say PLI
needs, should also be doable in SV in a native form. There is no reason
that the PLI should have more features than SV itself.

Alain Raynaud
Tensilica, Inc.



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