Making the scope type NESTED_MODULE was just plain wrong, because
it didn't really encapsulate the meaning of program blocks OR
nested modules. So instead create nested_module() and program_block()
flags and use those to test scope constraints.
An important advantage of program blocks is its ability to nest
within a module. This winds up also allowing modules to nest, which
is legal but presumably less used feature.
A NetScope object currently has two lists of parameters, 'parameters'
and 'localparams'. However, user-declared localparams are stored in
the 'parameters' list, and 'localparams' is only used for adding
genvar values to the parameter list. There seems no good reason to
maintain separate lists, as the lists are merged before being passed
to the target DLL. This is most likely a hang-over from older code.
This patch extends the compiler to support all specparam declarations
allowed by the 1364-2005 standard. For compatibility with other
simulators, it allows specparam values to be used in any constant
expression, but outputs a warning message and disables run-time
annotation of a specparam if it is used in an expression that must
be evaluated at compile time.
Add a new IVL_PR_FINAL process type.
Add a flag to NetScope in_final_ which is set when elaborating the
statement of a final procedure.
Add checks during statement elaboration for invalid statements in a
final procedure, similar to checks for statements in functions.
Do a final check to make sure no final blocks have delays.
In the vvp runtime, use "$final" as the flag for the thread created by
the final procedure. During compilation, instead of adding such a
thread to the sched_list, add it to a new schedule_final_list that
mirrors the schedule_init_list, but is run at the end of simulation.
This patch allows the compiler to perform early elaboration
of functions if they are encountered in expressions that are
elaborated before the function would normally be elaborated.
This makes the function available for constant evaluation.
Suitable error messages are generated if a function that is
used in a constant expression is not a valid constant function.
This patch adds some preliminary module port information to the ivl
interface. This may change as I investigate exactly what is needed.
It also fixes a few minor bugs (a missed local variable and spacing)
The compiler currently performs parameter expression elaboration before
performing parameter overrides. This means that the information needed
to correctly determine the expression type and width may not be available
at the time elaboration is performed. This patch reworks the code to
delay elaboration until after all overrides have been performed. It
also provides a new -g option that controls how the width of parameter
expressions is calculated when the parameter itself is unsized.
The pform propagates the parsed enum base type information
to the elaborator so that the base type can be fully elaborated.
This is necessary to get the types of the enumeration literals
correct.
When enum names are used as r-values in expressions, use their
values. Treat the enum names similar to (but not exactly as)
localparams so that they fit into the rest of the elaboration
flow naturally.
This patch cleans up some style issues: no need to check that a value
is defined before freeing or deleting it, use C++ style casts, make
sure to NULL terminate strncpy(), empty() is faster than size() for
size == 0 or size >= 0 checks, re-scope some variables, etc.
Creation of implicit nets requires knowledge of whether an identifier
has been declared before it is used. Currently implicit nets are
created during elaboration, but by this stage the order of declaration
and use is not known. This patch moves the creation of implicit nets
into the parser stage.
When checking for name collisions, the compiler looks for genvar
declarations in the enclosing module rather than in the current
scope, which leads to false positives. The compiler also places
all genvar declarations in the enclosing module scope, even when
the declarations are inside a generate block which has its own
scope. This patch fixes both these faults. It also fixes some
typos and outdated information in comments.
This patch adds genvars to the elaboration process. It adds checks
that a genvar is defined for a generate loop and that a genvar does
not conflict with any other items in its name space.
This patch adds real functionality for `celldefine and pushes this
property to the run time which can access this with vpiCellInstance.
This is technically only available for a module, but all scopes
have the property and only modules should return true when the
'endmodule' is between a `celldefine and `endcelldefine directive.
This patch add code to print a warning message if it finds both a
default and `timescale based delays. The -Wall or more specifically
the -Wtimescale flag can be used to find the module with the missing
`timescale directive.
Now that NetNet objects in NetScopes are kept in a map, remove the
linked list for scanning them. This improves the lookup process from
an O(e**N) process to more like O(log(N)). This matters for very
large designs.
Continue cleaning up shadowed variables, flagged by turning on -Wshadow.
No intended change in functionality. Patch looks right, and is tested
to compile and run on my machine. No regressions in test suite.
This patch pushes the automatic property for both tasks and
functions to the code generators. The vvp back end does not
currently support this so it will error out during code
generation. The VHDL back end should be able to use this
property and tgt-stub prints the property. Having this will
also make it easier when we do adding this to the runtime.
Add include statements (<cstdlib> for abort()) and a cast.
Necessary and sufficient for successful compilation with
gcc-4.3 (Debian 4.3.0-4) 4.3.1 20080501 (prerelease)
Before this, the types of parameters were always logic, only the
width and signed-ness could be controlled. A parameter may take
on implicit real values if the expression were real.
With this patch, the type for the parameter can be explicitly set
to logic or real. This also means that the parameter real valued
expressions need to be more crefully treated, possibly with casting
integral expressions to real values, or real expressions to integral
values.
The pform is now translated/elaborated into NetScope objects. All that
remains is to check the parameter values against the ranges. This is
to be done in the evaluate_parameters() method.
This patch adds file and line information for parameters and
local parameters. It also adds file/line stubs for signals in
the tgt-* files. It adds the pform code needed to eventually
do genvar checks and passing of genvar file/line information.
It verifies that a genvar does not have the same name as a
parameter/local parameter.
This patch adds code to push the file and line information
for scope objects (modules, functions, tasks, etc.) to the
runtime. For modules, this includes the definition fields.
The default nettype was not always being set. This patch
modifies the NetScope constructor to get the default
nettype from a parent if it exists. It is set to NONE if
a parent does not exist.
Move the storage of wires (signals) out of the Module class into
the PScope base class, and instead of putting the PWires all into
the Module object, distribute them into the various lexical scopes
(derived from PScope) so that the wire names do not need to carry
scope information.
This required some rewiring of elaboration of signals, and rewriting
of lexical scope handling.
This patch causes unnamed generate blocks to be automatically named
using the naming scheme defined in the Verilog-2005 standard. This
is a fix for the problem discussed in pr1821610.
This patch adds checks to verify that functions do not invoke
statements that are invalid for them (#, @, wait, enable/call
tasks and non blocking assignment). For reference see section
10.3.4 of 1364-2001.
more general concept of arrays. The NetMemory and NetEMemory
classes are removed from the ivl core program, and the IVL_LPM_RAM
lpm type is removed from the ivl_target API.
NetTaskDef and NetFuncDef functions are created during
signal enaboration, and carry these objects in the
NetScope class instead of the extra, useless map in
the Design class.
Stephen Williams
Martin Whitaker
Jared Casper
Martin Whitaker
Cary R
Larry Doolittle
steve