Re: Section 10: $swrite and $sformat

Strings is my vote if we had to incorporate anything into Verilog-A. 
Definitely not registers.
But I wonder if we might want to hold off on adding a new data type for 
this revision, else it may drag on forever.

Dave

Martin O'Leary wrote:
> David,
> I hope we can discuss this point at the meeting on Thursday.
>
> The dilemma is that the strings functionality would be useful in analog
> (as is event by the recent threads) but that to make them work in analog
> the Verilog-AMS LRM need to either supports regs (from V2005) or strings
> (from SV) in the analog context.
>
> Thanks,
> --Martin
>
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> From: owner-verilog-ams@eda.org [mailto:owner-verilog-ams@eda.org] On
> Behalf Of David Miller
> Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 6:43 AM
> To: Verilog-AMS LRM Committee
> Subject: Section 10: $swrite and $sformat
>
> In the latest revision document we have $swrite and $sformat as being
> supported in both digital and analog.
> I think these should be only supported in digital since we have no
> string data type that we can write to during simulation (and we are not
> going to support assigning of registers in analog.
>
> Unless we want to add in a new data type "string" that can be assigned
> during behaviour.
>
> Dave
>
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