The vvp target code generator may not elide a BUFZ if the output of
the BUFZ is connected to a net that is the subject of a procedural
force statement.
This patch adds code that allows the targets to determine if a logical
gate came from a continuous assignment. This helps some of the targets
generate code that more closely matches the input.
It also reworks/simplifies the synthesis of && and || since the
compiler has already converted the two operands to single bit form
and fixes a mismatched delete from a previous patch.
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)
This patch modifies the compiler and the ivl interface to pass the
type of indexed part select that is being represented (up/down) in
a procedural L-value or R-value. This is needed by any back end that
wants to correctly denormalize the (zero based) base expression.
This patch adds support to the compiler/ivl interface for getting the
original UDP definition port names. ivl_udp_port() was added to get
this information.
This patch fixes a bunch of objects to have the correct file/line
information. It also adds support for getting file/line information
for events (named events have a definition line).
This patch adds/fixes the following:
Adds file/line information to a UDP definition.
Prints an error message if a UDP is passed signals wider than 1 bit.
A UDP should supports a range, but the compiler currently does not.
Add scope information for constants.
Fix the Icarus extension UDP table entry element 'h' to use h.
The ivl_udp_init() value is a char not unsigned.
Add FILE_NAME() for a bunch more of the ivl interface objects.
This gets the enumeration type through to the ivl_target API so
that code generators can do something with it. Generate stub
output with tgt-stub, and generate the proper vvp run time to
make simple enumerations work from end to end.
BOOL values have a specific cast from LOGIC, this node takes care
of it. Also arrange for the elaboration to insert them in the right
planes and for the code generator to generate them.
This patch adds the ability to call a system function as a task for
the SystemVerilog generation (-g2009). The return value is really
calculated, but it is ignored.
This patch pushes delays for tranif gates to the code generator.
We still need to add checks for the number of delays, etc. For
now an error message is printed when a tranif gate is given a
non-zero delay.
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.
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.
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.
This patch adds support for 64 bit non-blocking delays in procedural
code. We fixed the procedural delay operator (blocking delays) earlier.
This patch mostly mimics what was done there. The continuous assignment
delay operator still needs to be fixed.
For most cases just using the value of a parameter is fine, but
a vpi call can access more than the value so we want to use a
parameter reference instead of the value for vpi calls.
Strings were working correctly, integer values need some minor
code generator changes and real values needed to be pushed from
elaboration to the code generators. I also changed the default
real value comment from %g to %#g so that it is more obvious
that the value is a real value.
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.
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.
This patch pushes the non-blocking event control information to
the code generator. It adds the %evctl statements that are used
to put the event control information into the special thread
event control registers. The signed version (%evctl/s) required
the implementation of %ix/getv/s to load a signed value into
an index register. It then adds %assign/wr/e event control based
non-blocking assignment for real values. It also fixes the other
non-blocking real assignments to use Transport instead of inertial
delays.
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.
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.
Detect function call expressions that turn out to be calls to the
access function of a nature. Elaborate the access function and stub
the emit code. This gets the access function just short of the code
generator.
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.
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 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.
Martin Whitaker
Cary R
Larry Doolittle
Stephen Williams
Nick Gasson