Subject: Re: [sv-ec] Chapter 12 issues
From: Kevin Cameron x3251 (Kevin.Cameron@nsc.com)
Date: Sat Feb 15 2003 - 23:28:27 PST
Why do you think no-one would want to use mailboxes and semaphores to
model hardware, they are things that are built in silicon. The major
difference is that the hardware version has to be a fixed size.
Adding optional limits to the size of these objects allows them to
be synthesized more easily, as does static declaration.
If they are synthesizable, forcing the order of access (FIFO in your
proposal) unnecessarily constrains the behavior.
Kev.
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