RE: $fopen/$fclose

One of the big things that kept my customers on SpectreHDL was the lack
of $fread, $fscanf, etc.. 
once AMS Designer supported the 2001 stuff in the discrete context I
used that for the Mixed signal stuff but for Design Verification, and
custom sources (ie read data from matlab etc as a source I ALSO want the
Analog Subset to support these...  its a bit different in the compact
modeling though)  


Jonathan David   Mixed-Signal IC 
jbdavid@cadence.com Ph (408)894-2646

-----Original Message-----
From: geoffrey.coram@analog.com [mailto:geoffrey.coram@analog.com] 
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 5:41 AM
To: Jonathan David
Cc: Marq Kole; verilog-ams@eda.org
Subject: Re: $fopen/$fclose

Jonathan -
I hadn't noticed the omission of MODE for opening a file.
The AMS LRM is somewhat vague about what mode is used:
you get an error if the file can't be opened for writing,
so I guess that means the mode in AMS is "w" (not "a") --
but this should be noted explicitly.

I had noticed the omission of $fwrite, etc. while I was
doing LRM 2.2, but thought that these would get added to
LRM 2.3 when aligning with 1364-2001.  (And this wasn't
a compact modeling issue, so it wasn't mine to fix.)

-Geoffrey