Child scopes need to be accessed quickly, so use O(LogN) maps for
the children instead of O(N) lists.
Also, ivl_net_const_s objects exist in huge abundance for some kinds
of designs, so put some effort into reducing their memory footprint.
If a signed signal is driving a part select in a CA and the width
is less than 32 bits. the value will be zero extended and will
not work for negative values. This patch adds a warning that this
could happen. This will be fixed in development.
This patch adds -g2001-noconfig command line flag. The compiler
already supported this with `begin_keywords. Document this in
the manual page and fix a few other issues.
Fix endgenerate to be a 2001 keyword and add a few missing
keywords at the appropriate standard level e.g.(unsigned).
Add uwire and deprecate wone. wone used to just convert without
a warning to a wire. uwire will display a warning that it is
being converted to a wire without a check. wone is converted to
a uwire with a warning and then prints the uwire message. The
uwire message will be replaced with a real check fairly soon.
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.
When a pin array is virtual, dll_target::signal() doesn't need
to make a corresponding set of stub nexa.
This patch includes new detection of oversized arrays, configurable
with the ARRAY_SIZE_LIMIT flag. This limit only applies to devirtualized
arrays; virtual arrays are only limited by your architecture's
unsigned int type.
The concept and earlier versions of this patch have been successfully
stress-tested by multiple people. This one causes no testsuite
regressions on my machine.
Closes: pr2023076
Reduces resource usage when compiling large memories.
Normal usage patterns still create large nexus arrays
in t-dll.cc:dll_target::signal().
This patch is extensively tested; it shouldn't break anything.
The existing debug "optimizer" flag is (ab)used to control
message printing when large (>1000 element) arrays are
devirtualized or nexus-ized.
The new global variable disable_virtual_pins is available
to force allocation of Pin arrays when they are declared,
but no user interface is provided.
See extensive discussion on iverilog-devel, March 4-5 2009,
title "pr2023076: large memories".
Previously Icarus normalized the results so array [7:0] would
be the same as array [0:7]. This works just fine for
simulation, but the VPI calls can select the left or right
value and this was incorrect for the [7:0] case since it was
being normalized to [0:7]. This patch swaps the two values in
the a.out file and from this creates the previous first/last
values and a new flag that can be used to get the correct
left and right values for the VPI interface.
By not creating Nexus objects until necessary, we avoid creating a
lot of spurious objects. In fact, it is true that almost every
link that is created and connected to another link will create a
spurious Nexus object without this patch.
Functions that appear in continuous assignment expressions and that
have hidden dependencies or side effects need to be re-evaluated
whenever any input to the expression changes. This patch adds support
in the compiler and vvp runtime to enable this. This is currently
activated for any system function call that has no arguments. The
user may also force it to be used for any user function by passing
the option -gstrict-ca-eval to the compiler driver.
This patch also removes the -dautomatic option which was used for
gaining confidence in the code that supports automatic tasks and
functions. It is believed that the testsuite provides reasonable
fault coverage, and further tests can be added if bugs are found.
The disciplines are, from the perspective of the ivl target, collected
into the design. Add functions for the target to scan the disciplines
in the design.
In the process, also clean up the handlng of design constants.
In the ivl_target API, the IVL_EX_BACCESS expression type gets some meat,
specifically references to the branch it accesses and the the nature to
be accessed on that branch.
This includes enough API to get the branch nexus bits and signals
and show them in the dump. This also includes creating the reference
ground for branch access functions that use the implicit ground.
This patch fixes a number of problems related to the divide and
modulus operators.
The net version (CA) of modulus did not support a signed version.
Division or modulus of a value wider than the machine word did
not correctly check for division by zero and return 'bx.
Fixed a problem in procedural modulus. The sign of the result is
only dependent on the L-value.
Division or modulus of a signed value that was the same width as
the machine word was creating an incorrect sign mask.
Division of a signed value that would fit into a single machine
word was not checking for division by zero.
Division or modulus of a wide value was always being done as
unsigned.
Added a negative operator for vvp_vector2_t. This made
implementing the signed wide division and modulus easier.
Signals may have VMA disciplines attached. Make the attached discipline
visible through the ivl_target.h API. Also, re-arrange the internal
handling of the discipline structure so that we can expose disciplines
through the ivl_target C API without creating new structures. The
t-dll-api implementations of the discipline access functions can look
at the elaborated discipline structure directly. This is possible since
the discipline parse and elaboration are very simple.
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.
The true and false expression clauses must have compatible types,
which are not necesarily identical. In particular, VT_BOOL and
VT_LOGIC are compatible for the purposes of ternary arguments. The
test in NetETernary::synthesize was incorrect.
In the process, fix the type handling of NetConst objects to allow
for IVL_VT_BOOL constants. This is information that the downstream
may find useful, so should be handled correctly.
When the -V flag is passed to the iverilog command, we can easily
print the version information for the driver itself, but it is also
valuable to probe all the components that would have been used for
a real compile. So the driver executes the preprocessor and the ivl
core to have them print version information.
The ivl core program also tries to load the target code generator
and get version information to print. For this to work, create a new
optional entry point "target_query" that takes a query key string as
an argument and returns a const string as the result. Use this with
the key "version" to get version information out of the target.
Target selection is done by the DLL target code generator, so there
is no value having a layer of target selection ahead of it. Remove
all that redundant code and simplify the target config files to reflect
this.
Nothing to do with tab width! Eliminates useless
trailing spaces and tabs, and nearly all <space><tab>
pairings. No change to derived files (e.g., .vvp),
non-master files (e.g., lxt2_write.c) or the new tgt-vhdl
directory.
Low priority, simple entropy reduction. Please apply
unless it deletes some steganographic content you want
to keep.
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.
When generate schems and instance arrays are nested, it takes
multiple iterations of elaborate scope, defparams and evaluate
parameters before everything is worked out. Rework the work item
processing so that the loop elaborates scopes and runs defparams
in phases. The phases are needed so that we can tell when the
remaining defparams are orphaned.
This patch adds .cast/int and updates .cast/real to act as a local
(temporary) net and to support either a signed or unsigned input.
The vvp_vector4_t class not can convert an arbitrarily sized double
to a vector value. This removes the restriction of lround().
Also document the new statements.
This handles the general case of a non-real operand to a real-valued
division. This can turn up if only 1 operand of a divide is real. In
this case the division as a whole is real and the other operand must
be cast to real.
This method creates an extra node, but it should be a very compact
node and this node does no evaluation tricks so in the run time should
be no more expensive then folding the cast into the .arith/div.r itself.
Fold the bi-directional part select into the pass switch (tran) support
so that it can be really bi-directional. This involves adding a new
tranvp device that does part select in tran islands, and reworking the
tran island resolution to handle non-identical nodes. This will be needed
for resistive tran devices anyhow.
NetTran devices must be collected into islands because they are all
a bi-directional mass. This is how vvp will process them and the code
generator will need a head start organizing them.
This involves defining the API for switches and cleaning up the
elaborated form to match the defined ivl_target API. Also add t-dll
code to support the ivl_switch_t functions, and add stub code that
checks the results.
The tran devices include tran, rtran, tranif0/1 and rtranif0/1. These
are all elaborated as options on a NetTran device. It is still not
clear the best way to present tran devices via the ivl_target.h API.
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.
In continuous assign expressions, the abs() operator can't easily be
burried in generic unary handling, so add the IVL_LPM_ABS type and
generate it as needed.
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.
This patch adds ifnone functionality. It does not produce an
error when both an ifnone and an unconditional simple module
path are given. For this case the ifnone delays are ignored.
This patch fixes some allocation problems (mostly in the parser
and lexor relating to identifiers). It also fixes a couple places
where uninitialized variables were used. All found with valgrind.
There are still 100 tests that have problems. Many of these appear
to be related.
This patch adds support for delaying constants at time zero. It also
cleans up the code in elab_net.cc to use this capability instead of
building it with an extra BUFZ to carry the delay information.
This patch adds the power operator for signed bit based values
in a continuous assignment. It also fixes a few other power
expression width problems. The expression width is still not
calculated correctly, since the correct method can produce huge
possible bit widths. The result is currently limited to the width
of the native long. This is because lround() is used to convert
from a double to an integer. A check in the code generator protects
the runtime from this limitation.
This patch adds bit based power support to normal expressions.
It also pushes the constant unsigned bit based calculation to
the runtime until the bit based method can be copied to the
compiler. Continuous assignments also need to use this type
of calculation.
Previously only the logical operators (~, &, |, ^, etc.) supported a
delayed value in a continuous assignment. This patch should extend this
to all operators. An extensive check of real values was done. The same
will be done shortly for bit based nets.
Checks for constructs currently unsupported in continuous assignments
provide a more explicit message (** operator, real user functions,
{!, && and ||} operators with a real argument).
Cary R
Stephen Williams
Larry Doolittle
Martin Whitaker
Nick Gasson