Draft PAR for further comment

Peter J. Ashenden (petera@cs.adelaide.edu.au)
Fri, 02 Jul 1999 11:49:29 +0930

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Dear colleagues,

At the 25 June meeting of the OOVHDL Study Group, the following revised
text for the draft PAR was agreed upon. The text is open for comment
until 2 July. After that time, I will hold an email vote closing 30
July.

Please direct comments to the list (oovhdl@eda.org).

Thanks.

Cheers,

PA

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Dr. Peter J. Ashenden              Email: petera@cs.adelaide.edu.au
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Purpose


Object-oriented and generic modeling offer mechanisms for abstraction
and encapsulation of descriptions of designs and testbenches, and thus
provide significant potential for reuse.  VHDL currently lacks many
features for these styles of modeling, which are important for
managing the increasing complexity of design descriptions. The overall
goal is to increase the productivity of electronic system design
engineers.


Scope


To define new language features and to extend existing language
features of VHDL to allow object-oriented and generic modeling of
electronic systems.  Among the approaches to be considerd are:
expression of abstract data types, including encapsulated data and
applicable operations; inheritance of data and operations;
polymorphism of objects; and genericity of types.
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