RE: reducing warning messages

I don't think that there is anything that says that you cannot define a
standard attribute in the standard that a simulator must support in
order to be called conformant with the standard.

Shalom 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sri Chandra [mailto:sri.chandra@freescale.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 11:58 AM
> To: Bresticker, Shalom
> Cc: Geoffrey.Coram; VerilogAMS Reflector
> Subject: Re: reducing warning messages
> 
> Yeah, I understand today we have the scenario that attributes 
> change the behavior of the tool, but some of them (I feel) 
> should be ideally part of the language. Of course its very 
> difficult to look at various implementations/attributes and 
> correctly understand the intent behind these attributes.
> 
> I hope some of the more key features (if any) implemented 
> through attributes because of lack of support through the 
> language provided by various simulator tools are discussed 
> and made part of the standard to make the models 
> inter-operable and standardize the language.
> 
> Of course, this point has been discussed a few times in the 
> past through the committee discussions and we have put some 
> notes saying attributes may not be compatible.
> 
> Regards,
> Sri
> 
> Bresticker, Shalom wrote:
> > The 1800 LRM says,
> > 
> > "A mechanism is included for specifying properties about objects, 
> > statements, and groups of statements in the SystemVerilog 
> source that 
> > can be used by various tools, including simulators, to control the 
> > operation or behavior of the tool."
> > 
> > The V-AMS LRM says,
> > 
> > "With the proliferation of tools other than simulators that use 
> > Verilog-AMS HDL as their source, a mechanism is included for 
> > specifying properties about objects, statements and groups of 
> > statements in the HDL source that can be used by various tools, 
> > including simulators, to control the operation or behavior 
> of the tool."
> > 
> >> A slightly different question on attributes - Attributes as i 
> >> understand are hints to the simulator ie. do not change 
> the behavior 
> >> or the results. Is this always true?
> > 
> > So an attribute could be defined that would change 
> simulator behavior.
> > 
> > Shalom
> > 
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