Architecture Class Methods

VHDL subprograms defined within an architecture declaration region are mapped to corresponding member functions. Additionally, each architecture class contains a constructor and destructor.

Method	Description
'ArchitectureClass' (         name_stack iname,         map_list *mlist)	Elaborates the declaration part of the architecture. The parameter ``iname'' is the instance name of the current component and ``mlist'' pointer to a list containing the mapping information for the port signals and generic parameters of the corresponding entity.
~ 'ArchitectureClass' ()	The destructor cleans up memory if a component is removed.

Example:

ARCHITECTURE behave OF myentity IS 
   SIGNAL localsig : INTEGER;
BEGIN
   p: PROCESS (...)
   BEGIN
      ...
   END PROCESS;

   fcomp: FOR i IN 0 TO genpar GENERATE
      ccc: ENTITY foo(fooarch)
         PORT MAP (...);
   END GENERATE;
END behave;

is transformed to

class L7testlib_E8myentity_A6behave : L7testlib_E8myentity 
{
  public:
  signal<L3std_Q8standard_T7integer> *S8localsig;
  L7testlib_E8myentity_A6behave();
  ~L7testlib_E8myentity_A6behave();
};

L7testlib_E8myentity_A6behave::L7testlib_E8myentity_A6behave(
    string iname, map_list *mlist) : L7testlib_E8myentity(iname, mlist) 
{
   // create process named ``p'' and link it with the kernel
   kernel.add_process(new L7testlib_E8myentity_A6behave(this, 
                             iname.get_name()), iname.push(":p"));

   iname.set(":fcomp"); // set ``:fcomp'' as the current instance name
   iname.push(""); // push a dummy entry on the stack
   // execute the generate loop
   for (int V1i=0; V1i < G6genpar; V1i++) {
      iname.set(V1i); // replace top entry with ``(?)''
      map_list ml;  // create map list and add mapping information 
       ...          // to the list

      iname.push(":ccc"); // add ``:ccc'' to current instance name
      // call constructor of component via a kernel call
      kernel.elaborate_component("","foo","fooarch",iname,&ml);
      iname.pop(); // remove ``:ccc'' from name stack
   }
   iname.pop(); // remove ``(?)'' from current instance name
   iname.pop(); // remove ``:fcomp'' from current instance name
};