Re: Proposal: Deprecate defparam


Subject: Re: Proposal: Deprecate defparam
From: Steve Grout (grouts@flash.net)
Date: Mon Oct 29 2001 - 13:41:53 PST


I also agree.
--Steve Grout

David Smith wrote:
>
> I also agree. The vote?
>
> David
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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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