Subject: RE: Proposal: Deprecate defparam
From: David Smith (david_smith@avanticorp.com)
Date: Mon Oct 29 2001 - 10:50:28 PST
I also agree. The vote?
David
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From: John Sanguinetti [mailto:jws@forteds.com]
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 1:01 PM
To: vlog-pp@eda.org
Subject: Re: Proposal: Deprecate defparam
I strongly agree.
At 8:28 AM -0700 10/22/01, Clifford E. Cummings wrote:
>Deprecate defparam
>
>I don't know the formal wording but I propose that we vote to
>deprecate defparam statements. Verilog-2001 introduced named
>parameter passing which is a much cleaner interface for passing
>parameters to instantiated modules. We already have a number of
>restrictions on the ugly defparams with respect to generate
>statements and we also documented in the Verilog-2001 standard that
>two defparams made from difference files to the same parameter is
>undefined. The practice of hierarchically changing parameters of
>another file should be put to rest.
>
>Regards - Cliff
>
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