Re: Is this phase accumulator trick well-known???

On Mon, 09 Feb 2009 19:03:01 +0000, Jonathan Bromley
<jonathan.bromley@MYCOMPANY.com> wrote:

>let's see what the bug report should look like...
>
>  Dear Xilinx,
>    XST compiled my code exactly the way I wanted it.  
>    Please fix XST so that it will NOT compile my code.
>  Yours sincerely,
>    A. Masochist.
>
>I don't see Xilinx exactly being flooded with
>that kind of case; do you? :-)

Which explains quite a lot about the non-compliance of XST.
And, arguably, it doesn't matter, because the code has already been thoroughly
vetted in simulation, hasn't it? 

:-)

It does get a bit more interesting when there are similar-looking (but
different) entities with the same name, e.g. in different libraries, and XST
picks the wrong one...

- Brian