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Comment by brandmeyer

> Can you expand on this? I don't quite understand what you mean by "message passing model" in the context of HDL.

See Section 9 of the SystemVerilog language reference manual, ieee1800. Bootleg pdfs of the 2005 revision are readily available.

The formal semantics of the language's execution are defined in terms of message-passing. Any lowering to physical hardware should respect the same semantics even if it isn't actually passing literal messages from one reg to the next.

parent brandmeyer 5 years ago

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