8.2.3 Changes


Subject: 8.2.3 Changes
From: Kevin Cameron (Kevin.Cameron@nsc.com)
Date: Fri Nov 22 2002 - 15:31:31 PST


    Resolution of the digital drivers is not performed, instead the digital value of the signal
    is taken as the value of the analog result converted back by one or more auto-inserted
    analog-to-digital connection modules (A2Ds).

Change to:

Instead of determining the final digital value of the signal by resolving all the digital drivers the
analog signal is converted back to a digital value by one or more auto-inserted
analog-to-digital connection modules (A2Ds).

    Drivers are created by declaring a reg, instantiating a primitive or using a continuous assign,
    so it is possible to have more than one driver for the same net, but since connect module insertion
    is done once for the net at the mixed port boundary these drivers will be handled by a single
    D2A.

- I don't think that needs changed, unless it actually conflicts with the merge/split rules which I think
apply to merging/spliting connect modules. I.e. you decide whether a port needs conversion, then
you decide whether you are going to merge them or not, the drivers within a module are always
merged.

    A net without drivers, receivers or contributions is treated as neutral interconnect even
    if a discipline is assigned to the net.

Change to:

Any drivers or receivers that have not been assigned a discipline (i.e. their local net has no
discipline) will inherit it from the first upwardly connected net which has a discipline defined;
noting that `default_discipline (see 11.1) is a parse-time directive which will assign a discipline
and overrides this elaboration-time behavior. Otherwise nets which have no drivers or receivers
of their own are considered neutral interconnect.

[If that's not what happens 11.1 probably needs editing]

Kev.

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