RE: [sv-bc] E-mail Ballot: Respond by 8am PDT, Tuesday, March 25

From: Stuart Sutherland <stuart_at_.....>
Date: Mon Mar 24 2008 - 22:44:16 PDT
I will not be able to make the meeting on March 25, which is not on the
usual Monday day of the week.  I am teaching a class at the time of this
meeting.

Following are my votes on the e-mail ballot.

> SVDB 1465 _X_Yes   ___No
Comment: As the editor, I found the editing directions a little confusing,
but it may all make sense when I am actually making the changes.  If not, I
can work with the author of the proposal to make sure the changes are
implemented as intended.
> 
> SVDB 1769 ___Yes   _X_No
I vote no because the syntax for an elaboration $fatal task is not the same
as for a run-time $fatal task. The former does not have a "finish_number"
argument.  I will change my vote to yes if the two versions of $fatal are
made consistent (and backward compatible).

>SVDB 2269 ___Yes   _X_No
The proposal would have any size cast result in an [n-1:0] size.  I do not
think this rule is intuitive or what users would want every time. Consider
the following:

logic [0:47] foo;
32'(foo) // results in an expression of [31:0] -- which bit of foo goes to
which bit of the operation result?

I am not sure what changes to the proposal are needed to change my vote to
yes.  I'd like to see more discussion on this proposal first.

Stu
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Stuart Sutherland
stuart@sutherland-hdl.com
+1-503-692-0898




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