Re: e-mail discussion on review report

Subject: Re: e-mail discussion on review report
From: Peter Ashenden (petera@cs.adelaide.edu.au)
Date: Sat Mar 18 2000 - 14:40:58 PST

Wolfram Putzke Roeming wrote:
>
> The intention of my last posting was not to promote Objective VHDL
> or the VISTA approach. In previous postings to the reflector the questions
> about usefulness of entity objects and polymorphism on entity objects
> had been raised. Outside the approaches which are discussed in the
> study group the published work on the VISTA approach addresses
> exactly these questions. Further the VISTA people not only say
> entity objects are useful (or not). They also tried to quantify the
> the benefits they observed.

I understand your intent, but I think you are comparing apples with
oranges. The semantics of entity architecture inheritance in Vista
OOVHDL are quite different from those of Objective VHDL. Hence any
claims that the Vista people made do not translate to the kind of
inheritance seen in Objective VHDL.

Cheers,

PA 

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