Hi Michael,
Perhaps you do not know it yet, but the vote on BIRD 187.2 at Friday's Open
Forum teleconference was deferred to some further modifications relating to the
following text.
Increment <typ> <min> <max> <delta>
The Increment Format defines, for Usage In and InOut, a range of discrete
integer values which can be swept by the EDA tool using a specified value
("delta"), where min <= typ <= max and delta is always positive. After
expansion, the expanded values of the parameter are typ + N*delta where N is
any positive or negative integer value provided by the EDA tool during the
expansion process so that: min <= expanded values <= max.
Steps <typ> <min> <max> <# steps>
The Steps Format operates exactly like Increment with <delta> ==
(<max>-<min>)/<# steps>
The issue is that inadvertently the current text seems to suggest that the
values generated according to the Increment (or Steps) format must be integer
which violates the existing spec. Thus the word "integer" in the first sentence
needs to be removed. Furthermore, the second part of the first statement makes
a suggestion that the use if these formats is somewhat different from other
formats where a selection is made by the user. Similarly to, for example, the
List format we should be talking about user selection instead of somewhat
unspecified sweep to be made by the EDA tool.
I hope this should be easy to fix. I do not quite remember whether the
consensus was to pass a revised version through ATM or just to send it back to
Open Forum.
Best regards,
Radek
