In reply to Mark Curry:
Hi Mark,
Thanks for the feedback. Having a standard synthesis subset would be a great benefit to the user base at large. However there’s just one problem: not enough users demand full compliance to any EDA language standard. IEEE 1364.1-2002 was never adopted by any vendor, and the standard was withdrawn.
A standard for compliance has little value if there’s not a majority out there demanding compliance (And I mean majority by revenue ROI) So you wind up with 2 standards without uniform compliance.