Save tons of space per memory word by not creating a vpi handle for
each and every word of a variable array. (Net arrays still get a
vpiHandle for every word.) The consequence of this is that all
accesses to a variable array need to go through the indexing.
This commit handles the most common places where this impacts, but
there are still problems.
With this change, local symbols are not emitted in the vvp target,
but are marked as local. When thus marked, the vvp run time does not
offfer any VPI access and the signals (net or var) are effectively
invisible.
Use the new array VPI functionality (vpiIndex, vpiParent, vpiArray)
to dynamically generate array word names. The old patch to implement
was mostly reverted.
This patch adds the ability to dump array words. The words are only
dumped if they appear in a $dumpvars() statement (they are not dumped
by default). The name used for the word is <array_name>[<index>], so
you can get unexpected name conflicts.
There is also a slight increase in the memory requirements since each
array word now keeps its own name information. In the future we would
like to change this, but that is a much larger rewrite of the array
code in vvp.
This patch also needs the "Prefix escaped identifier ..." patch to
work correctly (the array word name is an escaped identifier).
Make varable drivers (reg vectors and real) propagate their initial
values using a special init scheduler queue. This causes the net to
be loaded with reasonable initial values.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Williams <steve@icarus.com>
Words of net arrays were incorrectly added to the scope. They should
only be attached to the array, and accessed as a word of the array.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Williams <steve@icarus.com>
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.
Stephen Williams
Cary R
Larry Doolittle
steve