Re: supporting DPI in VHDL - possible scenarios for implementation

Russ,

One additional thing I would add to one of your points
in here:

Russell Vreeland wrote:
> This would be 
> a harder problem -- converting a function call to a structural 
> implementation is beyond a one-pass perl script -- but shouldn't be 
> difficult for a major-league simulation vendor. The advantage would be 

johnS:
I would venture to say that even creating a structural implementation
would not ever be necessary in a S/W simulator. Only when going
to an emulator that takes a synthesized gate level representation
might this become necessary. But in that case, infrastructure synthesis
was already a requirement for SCE-MI I and this does not really
add much to that requirement.

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-- johnS

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