Re: IBIS_CHK BUG8

Kelly:

What you proposed is the realistic situation. Technically I believe
it is a bug, but one can argue from some language in the specification
that this is not a bug.

In any case this is on the agenda for Friday's meeting. I propose this
be documented rather than fixed.

Best Regards,
Bob Ross
Interconnectix

> Date: Fri, 07 Feb 1997 10:40:35 -0800
> To: ibis@vhdl.org
> From: Kellee Crisafulli <kellee@hyperlynx.com>
> Subject: Re: IBIS_CHK BUG8

> Hi all,

> It is not obvious that to me that this is really a bug. It seems that
> this user has the usage of
> Pin and signal_name reversed. Please consider removing this from the bug
> list.
> "pin" should be 1,2,3,4 or AA1, BC1 etc. There really should never be a
> conflict with the
> reserved words.

> >DESCRIPTION OF BUG: Reserved keywords used as pin numbers generate errors
> >
> >(This bug was discovered by Arthur Wong of IDT and reported December 5,
> 1996.)
> >
> >| When pin "number" takes on the name of any of the reserved keywords
> >| (gnd, power, nc, na), an error is reported.
> >
> >[Pin] signal_name model_name R_pin L_pin C_pin
> >nc One_Pin NC
> >gnd One_Pin GND
> >na One_Pin NC
> >power One_Pin POWER
> >|

 
Received on Wed Feb 12 15:27:11 1997