Hi folks. I've been thinking about a new type of port which only exists in python, and which just proxies for another port which belongs to some other object. If you're familiar with systemc, I think this is pretty similar to the "export" object. The major use case for this would be to, for instance, add some to a SubSystem class (which is nothing but a blank box to hold other things) to expose ports within the SubSystem without having to dig around inside it. For instance, if you have a CPU complex with internal structure, you might want to wrap it all in a SubSystem and add a port for data, instruction, cached, uncached, etc. That would provide a lot more uniformity between CPUs, and help avoid having special little methods to hook up ports or say what port to use when connecting to a bus.
The name is a little tricky since port proxy is already a well known thing. Maybe just Export? That name has precedence, but I've always thought it wasn't immediately clear what it was. Gabe
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