Re: [sv-dc] Re: Verilog-AMS Committee Call - 16th June 2011 (SV-DC)

From: Kevin Cameron <edaorg@v-ms.com>
Date: Thu Jun 16 2011 - 03:13:56 PDT

Domains and disciplines are orthogonal concepts, marking a wire as discipline "electrical" (voltage & current) doesn't indicate a domain. Drivers and receivers belong to simulation domains e.g. discrete, continuous or (say) frequency. Verilog-AMS specifically handles the case where there are mixed discrete and continuous drivers (aka contributions) on the same net.

I'm not sure how using disciplines declarations (as in AMS) would be confusing vs the arbitrary insertion of "interconnect" which has no precedent. At least if you say it's "electrical" you know it's a physical connection and not something abstract.

Kev.

On 06/15/2011 10:31 PM, Ian Wilson wrote:
> There is nothing about 'interconnect' that denotes it as being in the continuous
> domain (although some of the motivation for its use allows event-driven real-valued
> models). So I think that the confusion that would ensue trying to shoehorn 'electrical'
> in there would outweigh any possible advantages.
>
> --ian
>
>

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