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From: marshall@manse.cs.man.ac.uk (Robert Marshall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.vhdl
Subject: Re: intermediate VHDL representation/VTIP
Keywords: VHDL VIFASG C++
Message-ID: <1991Mar12.151402.260@manse.cs.man.ac.uk>
Date: 12 Mar 91 15:14:01 GMT
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In article <3040@laura.UUCP>, dettmer@jupiter.informatik.uni-dortmund.de 
    (Thomas Dettmer) writes:
> Does anybody out there know, if there are plans to make an ANSI or C++
> interface for CLSI's VTIP (SPI)? I've heard some rumors, but nothing seems
> to be sure.
> Background: We are using InterViews (a X11/C++ based graphic library) in
> some projects but we are not planning to build an analyzer. Therefore it
> would be very useful to use the CLSI software, but it's a lot of work to
> produce a C++ interface (headerfiles) for SPI.
> 
> Another question related to this one: what will be the base to define a
> standard of the intermediate VHDL representation - a concrete language as C
> or ANSI C or something more abstract?
> ..
I hoped there would be some response to this, but having seen none I feel 
obliged to say something(!)

I spent some time partially converting the VIFASG 1076 VHDL Version 1.00
schema definition into C++ classes with the intention of hiding the constructor
definitions into various analyser specific include files.
It was great for discovering bugs in C++ compilers, at the moment I'm trying
to link these classes into the CLSI system with some remaining problems (mostly
connected with Sun shared libraries and g++)

On the actual standard interface all that anyone seems ready to commit
themselves to is a procedural interface, I don't know whether the schema
defined in the document is a dead duck, what was said at Oakland in October?
Various things were promised at EuroVHDL in September but I  heard no more.

Robert

If anything was said on this (in comp.lang.vhdl) that the uk missed 
I'd be grateful if you could send a resume
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