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10 years ago

Behavioral vs Dataflow/RTL

Hello, I am having some trouble identifying the differenace between behavioral and dataflow modelling. I have searched a bit on the internet and i have seen that these two coding styles are qu...
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10 years ago

And also, in a structural model, if we define the inputs and outputs of our system in the entity and then in the architecture, we declare components and signals and then we instantiate the components and using the signals we connect everything together.

If we did this, it still wouldn't work because the functions of each components haven't been define and for example to define an and gate we say a <= b and c which is dataflow/behavioral coding style.

so basically even structural modelling isn't purely structural no?