RE: [sv-bc] defparam problems

From: Bresticker, Shalom <shalom.bresticker_at_.....>
Date: Wed Nov 09 2005 - 23:56:32 PST
If we are talking about debugging problems, then a very frustrating
problem I have frequently encountered with in-line parameter passing is
the following:

I come to a parametric module.
I don't know what the parameter values are in the instantiation.
I don't even know who instantiates it.
I have to go searching for its instantiation.
Then when I finally find it, I find that the actual parameter value is
itself a parameter or function of parameters passed down from yet a
higher level module.
So I have to repeat the process.
This can go through several iterations until I get to the final stop.

And all this assumes I make no mistakes on the way.

By the way, I have found lint tools that don't handle in-line parameter
passing well and wind up using the wrong values.

Shalom
Received on Wed Nov 9 23:56:38 2005

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