IEEE P1164 Working Group - Change Proposal

ID:	  CP-008

Proposer: Peter Ashenden <peter@ashenden.com.au>
	  (Based on requirements gathering)

Status:	  Proposed (1-Jun-2001)
	  Analyzed (14-Feb-2003)
	  To be resolved

Summary:  Provide formatted I/O with selection of radix

Detail:

Modified by D. Bishop 11/16/04

Take the "read" and "write" routines from the std_logic_textio
package and add them to std_logic_1164 with the 1076.6
meta comments "-- rtl_synthesis off" and "-- rtl_synthesis on"
around it.  Provide an emtpy package named "std_logic_textio"
to perserve the namespace.

Modify the "hread", "hwrite", "oread" and "owrite" routines
to be more forgiving.  Currently if a value which is not exactly
the correct size is provided to these routines they error out.

Add a "bread" and "bwrite" alias to sepecify binary reads
and writes.

Workshop summary

  - Yes, let's do write, read doesn't seem necessary


Analysis:

	By Peter Ashenden <peter@ashenden.com.au>, 14-Feb-2003

	The need for overloaded read and write procedures for standard
	logic scalar and vector types is now widely met by the
	std_logic_textio package developed by Synopsys, Inc.  CP-007
	proposes inclusion of that package in the standard.  Doing so
	makes this proposal redundant, and so it is rejected.


Resolution:

[To be determined by the P1164 Working Group]