RE: [sv-cc] Today's SV VPI Update


Subject: RE: [sv-cc] Today's SV VPI Update
From: Joao Geada (Joao.Geada@synopsys.com)
Date: Mon Jan 19 2004 - 15:19:11 PST


MessageBassam,

thanks for the feedback. I'll be quite busy tomorrow, but I should be able
to incorporate the changes on Wednesday.i
I'll update the vpi_user.h file on the same timeframe.

Joao

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  -----Original Message-----
  From: Bassam Tabbara [mailto:bassam@novas.com]
  Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 5:29 PM
  To: Joao.Geada@synopsys.COM
  Cc: sv-cc@eda.org
  Subject: RE: [sv-cc] Today's SV VPI Update

  Joao, [this is an html email so I can paste the fixes ...]

  My apologies for this oversight on my part, somehow I never sent the first
part out of this email earlier ... sorry about that. A couple of
enhancements remain in the property part, here's what I see (in the rev you
just sent out) to more accurately reflect draft3 (most are just additions
similar to what you have already, so not a big issue, nothing is wrong, just
need a bit more beef up ...): As far as I can tell this all I see.

  PART I: Diagrams

  1) vpiPropertyOpType needs to also have: vpiAnd, vpiOR, and if/else , see
the following (draft3)

  property_expr ::=

  sequence_expr

  | ( property_expr )

  | not property_expr

  | property_expr or property_expr

  | property_expr and property_expr

  | sequence_expr |-> [ not ] sequence_expr property_expr

  | sequence_expr |=> [ not ] sequence_expr property_expr

  | if ( expression ) property_expr [ else property_expr ]

  | property_instance

  2) property expr needs to also have "multiclock property expr"
before/under property expr, and then a new diagram for "multiclock property
expr" of the form (similar to property expr)

  multi_clock_property_expr ::=

  property_expr

  ! multi_clock_sequence

  | clocking_event multi_clock_property_expr

  | ( multi_clock_property_expr )

  | not multi_clock_property_expr

  | multi_clock_property_expr or multi_clock_property_expr

  | multi_clock_property_expr and multi_clock_property_expr

  | multi_clock_sequence |-> multi_clock_property_expr

  | multi_clock_sequence |=> [ not ] multi_clock_sequence
multi_clock_property_expr

  | if ( expression ) multi_clock_property_expr [ else
multi_clock_property_expr ]

  | property_instance

  3) Multi clock sequence expression also needs some enhancements (top
figure in below, needs to be more enhanced with "ops" too

  Add the following:

  multi_clock_sequence::=

  clocked_sequence { ## clocked_sequence }

  sequence_expr

  | clocking_event multi_clock_sequence

  | ( multi_clock_sequence )

  | multi_clock_sequence ## multi_clock_sequence

  PART II: vpi_user.h: missing the assertion/coverage/Read VPI... what's the
plan for this ?

  Thx.

  -Bassam.

  --
  Dr. Bassam Tabbara
  Technical Manager, R&D
  Novas Software, Inc.

  http://www.novas.com
  (408) 467-7893

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-sv-cc@server.eda.org
> [mailto:owner-sv-cc@server.eda.org] On Behalf Of Joao Geada
> Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 1:04 PM
> To: Sv-Cc
> Cc: Tapati Basu; Avinash G Mani; Charles Dawson; Francoise Martinolle
> Subject: [sv-cc] Today's SV VPI Update
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> attached is the last major update that I was expecting for
> the SV VPI extensions. This update includes some minor fixes
> to a number of diagrams, adds the expression diagrams,
> interface specify blocks, assignment stmts (to deal with the
> assignment operators, section 7.3), etc
>
> Additionally, this version provides a the sv_vpi_user.h file
> with the names of all the new VPI constants (though with no
> numbers assigned to the various constants, as I expect that
> some specific number range will be assigned for SystemVerilog)
>
> The only things in SystemVerilog that know are not
> represented by these diagrams are: section 12.6 (random
> sequence generation) section 20 (coverage)
>
> Joao
>






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