Steven Sharp wrote: [...] > This idea that port coercion is a deliberate attempt by the tool to > fix an incorrect port direction was a figment of someone's imagination. > What happened is that Verilog-XL collapses ports whenever it can, for > performance reasons. It does this independently of the declared or > correct port direction. When it does this, the port becomes an inout. I agree -- the view that collapsing can be expressed as "port coercion" poses some real issues. I think that confusion also manifests itself in the modport discussion. In the past I've also raised issues with force semantics as well if you don't really think about nets as collapsed. Gord. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Gordon Vreugdenhil 503-685-0808 Model Technology (Mentor Graphics) gordonv@model.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.Received on Fri Oct 19 10:32:00 2007
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