RE: [sv-ec] Query on interface

From: Fitzpatrick, Tom <tom_fitzpatrick_at_.....>
Date: Tue Mar 15 2005 - 11:29:24 PST
Hi Swapnajit,

Your example is legal. This is one of the things modports are used for -
to limit visibility to a subset of the interface signals/methods.

-Tom
Tom Fitzpatrick
Verification Technologist
Mentor Graphics Corporation
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-sv-ec@eda.org [mailto:owner-sv-ec@eda.org] On 
> Behalf Of Swapnajit Chakraborti
> Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 5:59 AM
> To: sv-ec@eda.org
> Subject: [sv-ec] Query on interface
> 
> I have a query related to declaration of modport inside an interface.
> 
> Is it mandatory to include all signals of the interface in 
> the modport declaration? In other words, can we form a 
> modport declaration with a subset of signals declared in the 
> interface?
> 
> For example,
> 
> interface i1;
>   wire a, b, c, d;
>   modport master(output a, input b);  <--- Is this valid?
> endinterface
> 
> Thx,
> Swapnajit.
> 
Received on Tue Mar 15 11:29:27 2005

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