Back to the future

[Mike Treseler]

On Fri, 10 Jul 2009, Jan Decaluwe posted:

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|"Since I started with RTL design in 1991, my goal has been to raise the|
|abstraction level as much as possible. Two key characteristics of my |
|design style are: |
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|* using a single clocked process for both control and data operations |
|* using variables, including register inference from them |
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|Since the early days I am convinced that this is a superior coding |
|style." |
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Colin Paul Gloster wrote:

Why?

I find it easy to follow sequential
code with variable registers.
I don't have to fire up the simulator
or sketch boxes and arrows just
to figure out the design intent.

-- Mike Treseler