Or...... move to verilog/VHDL and use black boxes? :)

On Fri, 30 Aug 2019 at 14:14, Franco <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Jack,
>
> I see. We actually found problems when trying to script xBlocks within an 
> xBlock, we got some weird block connection error, but I guess that is 
> something solvable with some debugging. We'll evaluate if we stay with xBlock 
> scripting or we switch back to standard simulink scripting.
>
> Thanks for the info!
>
> Franco
>
> On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 4:39 PM Jack Hickish <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Franco,
>>
>> I don't think there's any reason not to use xblocks. Someone can
>> correct me if I'm wrong.
>>
>> Several years ago there was a quest to move the whole casper library
>> to xblocks -- https://github.com/casper-astro/xblocks_devel/ -- but it
>> never seemed to get traction and the original libraries won over. I
>> suspect had the project been more aggressive about just replacing the
>> casper libraries it would have caught on.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Jack
>>
>> On Thu, 29 Aug 2019 at 12:34, Franco <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > Dear Casperites,
>> >
>> > I've recently been playing around with the creation of block libraries and 
>> > I found out about Xilinx's API for programmatic model creation (xBlock). I 
>> > find it particularly convenient because you don't have to explicitly 
>> > position the blocks, as the software does all the positioning for you, and 
>> > for what I tested the results are pretty nice.
>> >
>> > However when I checked in the CASPER library, only a few blocks are 
>> > created using xBlock, and moreover, some blocks where re-implemented from 
>> > xBlock to standard Matlab block scripting.
>> >
>> > So my question is: is there any reason why I should avoid using xBlock? 
>> > The only inconvenient I have had with it for now is that you have to 
>> > install some additional libraries in Linux to make it work, which I didn't 
>> > find it documented anywhere.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Franco Curotto
>> >
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