VHDL does not allow to specify the size of returned std_logic_vector,
whereas Verilog requires the size to be known in advance. The size of
the vector is determined by checking the type of expression used in the
return statement.
VHDL doesn't have a direct way to express "always @(posedge...)"
statements, but we do want to detect common paradigms that naturally
translate. This makes for a better translation.
Entity output ports may be used as l-values in a process within
the bound architecture. Detect that case during elaboration and
adjust the signal declaration so that it works in the Verilog pass.
Infrastructure for debug and emit of sequential statements in processes.
This does not properly handle the actual semantics of the behavioral
code, but it provides an infrastructure where we can handle all the
tricky elaboration to come.
Get to the point where our sample program parses completely, and
the sequential statements generate SequentialStmt objects and a
process object in the architecture.
Also add a few missing expression types.
Maciej Suminski
Cary R
Stephen Williams
Arun Persaud
Pawel Szostek