Re: Paramset Proposal

From: Kevin Cameron <kcameron@cputech.com>
Date: Mon May 24 2004 - 11:52:00 PDT

Geoffrey.Coram wrote:

>Kevin Cameron wrote:
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>>I think I might have misunderstood your instantiation mechanism first time round. I assumed you were instantiating modules then applying paramsets, are you actually using paramsets like (overloaded) macro-modules?
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>I think that is more or less what we are doing.
>
>As to why we don't just used macro-modules (perhaps your next question):
>the LRM talks about how a simulator *may choose* to implement modules
>differently from macro-modules. The LRM doesn't say that they have
>to be done without introducing hierarchy (which you mentioned in a
>previous e-mail), and I don't see that analog_statements are
>restricted from macro-modules, as we intend to restrict them from
>paramsets.
>

> And, of course, the overloading is new (though I suppose
>we could add overloading for macromodules).
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>
Or just overloading of modules and macro-modules in general. That might
be useful if you have versions of a model with optional pins you don't
want floating as well as for setting the parameters. It might also be
more useful to the digital community.

Kev.

>-Geoffrey
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>

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