Abstract
Functions in VHDL’87 have an original property among most known languages: they are pure mathematical functions, which means that they will return the same result for the same set of inputs, with the remarkable exception of functions calling NOW. The consequences are as follow.
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Bergé, JM., Fonkoua, A., Maginot, S., Rouillard, J. (1993). Impure Functions. In: VHDL’92. The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, vol 229. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3246-0_10
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