In reply to tfitz:
You definitely wouldn’t want to get into anything structural, like analysis_ports
I want to clarify the above statement.
When ever I use analysis_ports it has always always been only transmitting “transactions”. My read_transaction has all the input variables and all the output variables. When I send an expected_read transaction packet from predictor to the scoreboard, I don’t assign values for each and every variables for the expected_read transaction, instead I only assign predicted values for the output and the remaining variables of the expected_read transaction packet are empty. I send this expected_read transaction - containing some filled and some blank - packet through the analysis port.
I thought can’t I just create another port and send just the required variables?
Questions:
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When you mention the statement above, are you telling creating such analysis ports (for variables instead of one complete transaction) it might cause more confusion?
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It’s not necessary that all variables of a transactions needs to have a value correct? I don’t why I think they should, but every time I send a partially filled transaction, I feel may be this might not be the right way of doing things.