Re: supporting DPI in VHDL - possible scenarios for implementation

Hi John,

> I'm OK with tabling the discussion as long as we don't
> drop consistent function call support for all three languages
> from the SCE-MI 2.0 agenda.
> [...]
> But given the concensus we've reached on this, dropping
> it from the 2.0 agenda would, in my view, be a big
> mistake.

I agree with you here.  I don't mind focusing on SystemVerilog
for a while, except I'd like to make sure we do not end up defining
something that would be incompatible with VHDL and `old' Verilog.

I also agree that it would be a mistake to drop 2.0 support for
`old' Verilog and VHDL.  We were very close on agreeing upon the
syntactical issues that would have allowed us to deal with the
rest of the issues in a language neutral way.

As a compromise I propose that we move along nailing down the
SystemVerilog portion of SCE-MI 2.0 to the point where vendors
can start implementing.  Then we can return to VHDL and Verilog
and finalize SCE-MI 2.0 with VHDL and Verilog support.

Per