Victor, this issue needs to be discussed at the next DASC steering
committee meeting. When and where is it?
-Stephen Bailey
Chair, IEEE 1076, 1076a Working Groups
> 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
> Dept. Computer Science peter.ashenden@acm.org
> University of Adelaide peter.ashenden@computer.org
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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.