These opcodes need to return 'bx or 0.0 for the real opcode when
the array index is undefined.
The patch also documents the auto incrementing of the bit
index register done by the %load/avx.p opcode.
When a part select is driving another part select any bits outside the
original select must be 'bz instead of 'bx. If we initialize the temporary
buffer to 'bz this should work as required. It there are multiple drivers
then a resolver comes into play and this should not matter.
The %shiftr/i0 and %shiftl/i0 opcodes are used for some part
selects and if we have a negative shift we want the value to be
padded with 'bx. This patch enhances the two %shift/i0 opcodes
to work with negative shifts and for negative shifts pad with
'bx instead of 'b0.
It also fixes %ix/get/s to use a uint64_t instead of a unsigned
long to avoid problems with sign extension on 32 bit machines.
Handle the case where the input to a net is a constant. Since nets
do not exist anymore as nodes in their own right, we need to create
a driver to drive a net from a constant.
Handle forward references of net inputs.
pr2827132 changed the val_ field in vvp_fun_part_sa to only store
the bit values for the selected part, not the entire source vector,
but omitted to modify the recv_vec4_pv method to handle this change.
This patch rectifies that omission.
Two small fixes: Threads should load signal values from signal_value
objects, not signal functors, and the force method should not run
its value through the filter.
It's not too likely we will ever reach this, but we should be nice
and print a message instead of just failing. We could set errno,
but for now the warning will have to be enough.
Currently, edge event functors declared in automatically allocated
scopes that are used to detect edges on signals declared in static
scopes are unable to correctly determine edge information for the
first signal delta they receive because they do not know the old
state of the signal. This patch causes the state of static signals
received by these event functors to be recorded as static state in
the functors, so the old state of the signals can be initialised
to the correct value when a new automatic context is created.
Currently a part select functor will send updates to nodes connected
to its output whenever any part of its input vector changes. This
patch ensures updates are only sent when the selected part of the
input vector changes.
Take wires out of the signals/variables and move them into a filter
instead. This is a big shift, and finally starts us on the path to
divide wires out of signals.
We want the entire force/release subsystem to only reference the
vvp_net_t or vvp_net_fil_t objects in a net. This gives us the
latitude to take wire implementations out of the vvp_net_fun classes.
These methods are type specific, but the code that invokes them
get at them from pointers to filter objects, so it makes sense to
make them abstract methods of the vvp_net_fil_t class.
This patch fixes a number of bugs related to real variable and net
arrays. Specifically the following:
1. When iterating over (scanning) a net array start at base index 0
not index 1.
2. Don't fail when iterating over (scanning) a real variable array.
3. Run the array_word_change() routine when a real variable array
word is changed. This allows array ports and value change
callbacks to work correctly.
4. Update the array_word_change() routine to work with real variable
arrays.
5. Update the array port code to support real variable arrays.
6. find_name() needs to also iterate over net array words just like
memory array words.
7. Initialize all real array words to 0.0 when the array is created.
Added support for the -N option, which causes $stop and ^C to behave
like $finish with an exit code of 1.
While I was at it, I noticed that the summary line in the man page for
vvp was missing a couple of options, so I fixed that.
The fd table used to be statically allocated with only 32 entries.
Three of these were preallocated for stdin, stdout and stderr
leaving only 29 for the user. This patch makes the allocation of
this table dynamic with a hard limit at 1024 total fds. The table
is increased in 32 bit chunks.
Someone got a bit too creative in reducing the original equations
I wrote to handle this. This patch reverts the previous code and
uses my original equations. This passes for both wide and narrow
vectors. The equations are slightly more complicated, but the old
z2x conversion had some overhead. I would expect the time to be
about the same, but you now get the correct results.
The vvp_fun_force node converts its input to a call to the
force method of the target node. This eliminates the need for
linking a net to a force input of a signal.
The vvp_net_t port 2 was used to implement force behavior, but that
is no longer how we plan to implement force, so remove it from the
implementation of signal nodes. This currently breaks much of the
force/release functionality, but we'll get it back by other means.
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.
It looks pretty stupid and non-c++-y, but it does remove two compiler warnings
vvp/stop.cc: In function 'void stop_handler(int)':
vvp/stop.cc:492: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to 'char*'
vvp/stop.cc:493: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to 'char*'
The wire base class cannot carry all the overhead for handling all
the different net types, so split it out into derived classes. This
will also move me closer to splitting wires away from variables.
This patch modifies the real parameter get_value routine to use
the standard vpip_real_get_value() routine. This routine has
support for an integer and a decimal string value.
This patch fixes the three %assign/v0/x1 operators to correctly
notice that the select has fallen off the start of the vector
for the case that the negative offset equaled the width.
There is no use implementing the release and deassign methods as
port commands. It's confusing and a waste of vvp_net_t functionality.
It also obscures what needs to be done to more force/release into
the filter object.
This is moving towards moving force/release out of the signal
class. The end-game is to remove all of the wire implementation
out of the functor and into the filter. Variables will remain in
the functor.
Move the vvp_vpi_callback to the vvp_net_sig.h header file, and
collapse some useless hierarchy. (Specifically, all callbackable
items are also wordable.)
Move the run_vpi_callback invocation for wires/variables from the
output generator to the newly implemented filter object. This is
starting to get the filter class working.
This patch adds code to automatically dump the output stream
including any dump file when entering interactive mode. When
the user typed ^C or $stop was executed.
Dumping array words is an enhancement that we have added to Icarus.
The problem was that if you wanted to dump the whole array you would
like to use a for loop as follows:
for (lp = 0; lp < max ; lp = lp + 1) $dumpvars(0, array[lp]);
This used to work, but some of the VPI rework broke it because it
counted on the word select to be constant. This patch restores the
functionality by converting the variable word select into a constant
word select in the calltf routine. This is done without warning and
only for the $dumpvars() routine.
Adding this functionality necessitated adding support for vpiIndex
to the &A<> routines.
This patch adds interactive support for $stop and $finish.
$stop displays a message that the simulator is already stopped.
$finish acts exactly like (calls) the interactive "finish"
command. Having $stop do nothing and $finish not finish until
you exit interactive mode is not very intuitive.
the vvp_net.h header file is getting pretty huge. This divides
the obviously separable signal functor code out into its own
header and source files.
Also, fill out the use of the filter member of the vvp_net_t
object. Test the output of the vvp_net_t against the filter.
When adding history (add_history) use both the existence of the
library and the header file to determine if history can be
supported. Add a new USE_HISTORY that is the and of these two.
The out pointer of a vvp_net_t object is going to be a bit more
sophisticated when we redo the handling of net signals. Take a step
towards this rework by making the pointer private and implementing
methods needed to access it.
To get the correct print format for a 64 bit value it is much
better to use <inttypes.h> (when available) than building our
own value. This allows MinGW to use the non-standard I64.
(cherry picked from commit d237e35076)
The Multiword division was not handling some degenerate high
guesses for the intermediate division result guess. The end result
was an assertion. Recover from this case.
(Does the addinb back of bp need to be optimized better?)
This patch adds compiletf routines for the $sscanf/$fscanf
functions. It does not enhance the conversion routines it
only adds better error/warning messages.
It also removed the redundant IS_MCD in some of the fileio
calltf routines. This is already checked in vpi_get_file().
I also added the vpiNetArray type to allow us to distinguish
arrays of nets from other arrays (memories). Much more is
needed here, but this solved the problem of the day. The
problem was that we needed to make sure we could assign to
the word of a variable array, but not the word of a net array.
It's actually probably not needed since Icarus converts the
net array word reference to just the net, but I thought it
prudent to make sure things didn't slip by.
This is mostly a minor definition change in the parsing of literal
numbers by the vvp lexor. Allow for 64bit numbers in the .delay
records, and have the code generator also able to cope with the
situation.
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.
Two bugs:
(1) propagating values through the branch accidentally also
did a part select.
(2) Not all nodes of the branch nexus didn't receive a calculated
values, even though they were all marked as done.
In the process, I cleaned up the code a bit, and documented it for
better understanding.
The code was using vpi_free_object() to free a vpiCallback
object and that was creating a memory leak since this is a
do nothing routine. You need to explicitly use delete.
The newer mkinstalldirs can handle paths that have spaces in them.
While I'm at it, I also updated the Makefiles so that installation
can also work to DESTDIR directories that have spaces.
When cleaning up the &A<> and &PV<> we need to check if the handle
argument is a nested call to another &A<> or &PV<> if it is then
we need to also delete that construct.
We also need to cleanup the vcd_info information list.
This patch adds code to free most of the memory when vvp
finishes. It also adds valgrind hooks to manage the various
memory pools. The functionality is enabled by passing
--with-valgrind to configure. It requires that the
valgrind/memcheck.h header from a recent version of
valgrind be available. It check for the existence of this
file, but not that it is new enough (version 3.1.3 is known
to not work and version 3.4.0 is known to work).
You can still use valgrind when this option is not given,
but you will have memory that is not released and the
memory pools show as a single block.
With this vvp is 100% clean for many of the tests in the
test suite. There are still a few things that need to be
cleaned up, but it should be much easier to find any real
leaks now.
Enabling this causes a negligible increase in run time and
memory. The memory could be a problem for very large
simulations. The increase in run time is only noticeable on
very short simulations where it should not matter.
If an &A() operator contains a label for an array that has not
yet been declared, vvp fails with an assertion error. This
patch delays the calls to array_find() in the functions that
compile &A() operators, using the usual resolve list mechanism.
Most named objects should have a vpiModule handle to get a handle
to the enclosing module. This patch adds code to get this for all
the elements that I could find that needed it.
It also adds a three more names to vpi_get_str(vpiType, ...) and
fixes a problem in the vpiLeftRange for PV signals.
This completes the transition to the new string based formatting.
All the tasks now use the string formatting routines. Better
compile time checking and better messages were also added.
Also a couple of types were added to vpi_get_str(vpiType, ...)
and the calculation for vpiConstantSelect was fixed for both
the &A<> and &PV<> constructs. If the value is a plain variable
or if it is calculated in thread space we assume it is not a
constant. This may not be true because of limitations/bugs in
the compiler (constant user functions are one known problem).
Certain paths through vpi_put_value cause a vpip_put_value_event to
be created with no path for deleting in. Add the capability in the
schedule_generic method, so that it can be delete as soon as it is
executed.
This patch fixes vvp to use the standard static result buffer
when returning the vector value of a constant string. The
previous calloc method was creating a memory leak.
This patch fixes some more memory leaks in vvp. Mostly related
to UDP compilation and one in find_scope() that was found when
testing the VPI code. The leak in ivlpp was that the define
temporary buffer not being freed when the lexor was finished.
This patch fixes a bunch of memory leaks in vvp and converts the
T_STRING lexical token to be new based. There are still two
known leaks that I need to find a way to fix and likely some
unknown leaks that still need to be found and fixed.
Rather then spread VERSION= defines throughout all the makefiles, put
the base version in version_base.in. Use that to generate a version.h
that includes the base version as well as the detailed version.
This reverts commit 31d67fcd3e.
The concensus has been that this causes too many build problems in
the general case and what is needed instead is a way to turn on the
extra warnings for developers only.
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 code base is almost shadow-free now, so this won't add much noise to the compiles.
Problems I know about:
lxt{,2}_write.c: patch sent upstream
cflexor.c: exposes gray area of name space boundary
Finish 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 the test suite.
This is the end of the simple, coordination-free patches.
The remaining shadows are special cases that will need extra attention.
This patch cleans up the Makefile.in files.
We only need to delete config.log in the lower directories.
We reference the *.in files at $(srcdir)/
We need to make distclean for the tgt-(fpga,pal,verilog) directories.
This is to cleanup the Makefile.
Add some missing "rm -r f dep"
Collapse all the configure checks to a single configure script in
the root of the source tree. This makes the configure process run
a lot faster, expecially on Windows systems that are slower in general.
Remove the #ident and $Log$ strings from all the header files and
almost all of the C/C++ source files. I think it is better to get
this done all at once, then to wait for each of the files to be
touched and edited in unrelated patches.
Tran islands are a kinds of island, so seperate the tran handling
from the core island concept. This will allow for creating new
kinds of islands. (Think analog.)
This patch adds the procedural power function %pow/s for signed
values. This has bit based inputs and outputs, but uses the double
pow() function to calculate the value.
This patch removes the CVS ident information from the Makefile.in
files it also puts in the current version 0.9.devel for the default
VERSION definition. This is normally passed down, but a local make
will use the value from the local Makefile. This will eventually be
replaced with a file based version to give us just one place to
reliably modify the version.
This patch makes the code generator put the compiler version
information in the vvp output file. It also adds checks in vvp
to verify that this version is compatible with the run time.
I am assuming that a base release 0.9.0, etc. will have a
blank VERSION_TAG. Any change relative to the release will have
a VERSION_TAG.
This patch adds a -V flag to the runtime to print version information.
It also updates the manual page to document this and makes some minor
changes to the iverilog an iverilog-vpi manual pages.
Users expect that vpi_put_value() will keep a copy of the string
that is passed to it. This patch implements this buy copying the
string and then freeing it after the actual put_value call.
This configure option causes the installed commands to have
a suffix string that makes them distinct from other versions
that also have a suffix string. This allows for multiple
installed versions of Icarus Verilog.
Also, move installed C/C++ header files into a subdirectory of
their own under the target include directory, to make clearer
the purpose and source of those files.
Eliminate three "warning: suggest parentheses around assignment used as truth value"
Obviously not needed, but it's easier to add the superfluous parentheses
than remember that these warnings are benign.
The VVP %join function was incorrectly treating the return from a
non-automatic function as a return from an automatic function in
the case that the non-automatic function result was being used as
a parameter to an automatic function. This patch fixes this error.
This patch addresses a number of issues:
Rewrote the $test$plusargs and $value$plusargs routines to have
better error/warning messages, to support runtime strings, to
correctly load bit based values (truncating, padding, negative
value), added support for the real formats using strtod() and
added "x/X" as an alias for "h/H" to match the other part of
Icarus.
Rewrite the vpip_{bin,oct,hex}_str_to_vec4 routines to ignore
embedded "_" characters. Add support for a negative value and
set the entire value to 'bx if an invalid digit is found. A
warning is printed for this case.
Rewrite vpip_dec_str_to_vec4 to ignore embedded "_" characters,
to support a single "x" or "z" constant and to return 'bx if an
invalid digit is found. A warning is printed for this case.
It simplifies the system task/functions error/warning messages.
It removes the signed flag for the bin and dec string conversions.
This was not being used (was always false) and the new negative
value support makes this obsolete.
Add support for a real variable to handle Bin, Oct, Dec and Hex
strings. They are converted into a vvp_vector4_t which is then
converted to a real value.
Add support for setting a bit based value using a real value.
Removed an unneeded rfp signal in vpip_make_reg()
This patch adds a number of compile and run-time checks for illegal
uses of variables declared in automatic tasks and functions. It
also adds a check for event expressions in automatic tasks that use
features not yet supported in VVP.
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.
Support arrays of realtime variable arrays and net arrays. This
involved a simple fix to the ivl core parser, proper support in
the code generator, and rework the runtime support in vvp.
This patch fixes some problems found when trying to dump words
from a real wire array. There are still a few more things that
look suspicious and need testing.
This patch splits any VVP net functor that needs to access both
statically and automatically allocated state into two sub-classes,
one for handling operations on statically allocated state, the
other for handling operations on automatically allocated state.
This undoes the increase in run-time memory use introduced when
automatic task/function support was first introduced.
This patch also fixes various issues with event handling in automatic
scopes. Event expressions in automatic scopes may now reference either
statically or automatically allocated variables or arrays, or part
selects or word selects thereof. More complex expressions (e.g.
containing arithmetic or logical operators, function calls, etc.) are
not currently supported.
This patch introduces some error checking for language constructs
that may not reference automatically allocated variables. Further
error checking will follow in a subsequent patch.
If a part select (either a constant or constant indexed part select)
of a L-value is fully outside the signal the part select will be
omitted after printing a warning. If a part select straddles the
upper portion of a signal a warning will be printed. The run time
will use only the appropriate part of the select. Straddling the
lower part of the signal is not currently supported and a message
is printed for this case.
It is up to the elaborator to sign-extend the inputs if the multiply
is signed in the Verilog source. The run time always processes the
multiply as unsigned.
Start 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. YMMV.
MinGW uses the GetProcAddress() function to find the address of
the vlog_startup_routines() procedure in a .vpi file. This routine
requires that the leading underscore be omitted from the name even
though the underlying routine really has one.
alloc_instance for real values was just passing a new double
to be added to the context items. The new constructor does
not set the default value so we need to do that manually.
This patch adds non-blocking event control for array words.
It also fixes a problem where the word used to put the
calculated delay for a non-blocking array assignment was
not being released. It also fixes the non-blocking array
assignments to correctly handle off the end/beginning part
selects.
Since some event control assignments can be skipped we need an
event control clear so that future %evctl statements do not fail
their assert. This patch adds %evctl/c and uses it in the compiler
as appropriate to keep the event control information in sync.
This patch adds full event control for vectors and parts of a
vector. It also fixes the other non-blocking part select code
to correctly handle a negative offset ([1:-2] of a [4:0] will
have an offset of -2).
The previous patch (commit 8b0ca902a6)
dealing with the possibilities of (unsigned long) and (vvp_time64_t)
being either the same or different managed to redefine UL_AND_TIME64_DIFF
in the 64-bit case. This does, of course, trigger a compiler warning.
That warning is repeated on every .cc file with a #include "config.h",
which is to say, just about every file.
This patch inverts the sense of the preprocessor conditional, calling
it UL_AND_TIME64_SAME. No more warnings!
A variable that is used to set the delay of a .delay statement
must be scaled to match the local units and for real values
rounded using the precision. This value is then converted to
the simulation precision.
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.
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.
The right shift of vvp_vector2_t needs to
account for and mask off shifted bits. Otherwise
there will be unexpected results after
a vvp_vector2_t::trim method.
Assume that anything that is strength aware already handles a
recv_vec8_pv and make the default function convert the bits
to a vec4 and then call recv_vec4_pv with this new value.
This patch adds support for vpiScaledRealTime and vpiSuppressTime
to VPI callbacks. It also fixes a bug where the callback data
object was not being copied correctly and adds support for
vpiSuppressVal. This requires adding vpiSuppressVal to a few
other routines. It adds the ability for a callback to return
more than vpiScalarVal (all values supported by the
vpip_vec4_get_value() procedure). It also fixes a bug where
vpip_vec4_get_value() would incorrectly return vpiZ for a BIT4_X
scalar value. It also comments the potentially dangerous
vpiScalarVal calculation in the vvp_fun_signal::get_value()
procedure.
This patch causes a thread that is created to evaluate a function
to be executed immediately. The parent thread is resumed when the
function thread terminates.
When multiply is done in native words, the conversion to words from the
vp_vector4_t vectors must be done signed. This only matters if the
input operands are different sizes (and themselves signed) but will
not hurt even if we want an unsigned result.
Logical (in)equality needs to look at all the bits of both operands,
and cannot short circuit the test unless defined bits differ. If there
are undefined bits, the equality is undefined at that point, but return
x only if there are not other bits that make the results clearly
unequal.
The double to vvp_vector4_t constructor was not using the correct
declaration for the bit words. This worked as long as unsigned and
unsigned long were the same size (usually).
The new real to int conversion was incorrectly setting the
bits for minus infinity to all ones. This is incorrect in a
two's complement encoding where the largest negative number
would be a leading 1 followed by an infinite number of zeros.
This patch updates the %cvt/vr command to use the new double to vector
constructor. This allows the resulting bit pattern to be larger than
a long. The old method was producing incorrect results without a
warning for large bit values.
This patch makes .part/pv strength aware, resolv vec8_pv
aware. vvp_net_fun_t adds vec8_pv as a virtual function
with an appropriate error default. vvp_fun_signal should
full support vec8_pv (not tested and may not be needed).
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.
This patch changes the base oct to string converter to correctly
pad the top digit. x or xx should display as a single lower case
x when they are located in the top bits. Before these were being
interpreted as 00x or 0xx and displayed X. Also modified the hex
conversion to use this same scheme instead of a loop.
First, handle the trivial (but possibly common) resolution cases in
inlined code, and only call the complete function for the complicated
cases. Then clean up the complex function for readability, and account
for the constraints that the front-end function established.
Arrays of vvp_vector4_t values redundantly store some fields in every
word. Create a special type that stores vvp_vector4_t values in a form
that does not duplicate the width of all the items. This can save a lot
of space when big memories are simulated.
The schedule_assign_plucked_vector is a better way to implement the
schedule_assign_vector, or at least no worse, so remove the now
redundent schedule_assign_vector.
It is legal (though worthy of a warning, I think) for the part select
of an l-value to me out of bounds, so replace the error message with
a warning, and generate the appropriate code. In the process, clean
up some of the code for signal l-values to divide out the various kinds
of processing that can be done. This cleans things up a bit.
The load-and-add for vectors %load/vp0/s can be combined with the
load-and-add for array words, and the %load/avp0/s added to round
out the combinations. This can make for fewer instructions when
words are padded in arithmetic expressions.
The functor_ref_lookup() function fills its argument in with the
vvp_net_t* pointer that matches the var name, so there is no need
to create the vvp_net_t object before then.
The vpiIndex is really just a different view into the same object,
so implement the trickery needed to support a vpiIndex with the
absolute minimum memory cost.
The %load/vp0 instruction adds a signed value to the signal value being
loaded, but it doesn't allow for a signed source vector. Add the
%load/vp0/s instruction that pads the loaded vector, and add the code
generator details to properly use it.
The vvp_net_fun_t objects, and derived objects, are small, and are
created in large quantities. Tightly pack them into permanently
allocated space in order to save on system allocation overhead, and
thus save overall on memory.
The part select of a vector is converted by the compiler during
elaboration to a 0-based canonical address. But since it is legal
to address bits below the LSB, the canonical address can be negative.
So make the part select base for selecting from signals work with
signed arithmetic and make the code generator generate negative
indices when needed.
Scheduler cells are small objects that come and go in great quantities.
Even though they are allocated and deallocated a lot, they tend to a
steady state quantity, so put together a heap that is unique for each
cell type.
This heap actually saves memory overall because cells are allocated in
chunks, thus eliminating allocator overhead, and they are pulled/pushed
from/to a heap very quickly so that what overhead remains is slight and
bounded.
The vvp_net_t objects are never deleted, so overload the new operator
to do a more space efficient permanent allocation.
The %assign/v instruction copied the vvp_vector4_t object needlessly
on its way to the scheduler. Eliminate that duplication.(cherry picked from commit d0f303463d)
The vvp_vector8_t constructor and destructor involve memory allocation
so it is best to pass these objects by reference as much as possible.
Also have the islands take more care not to perform resolution if the
inputs aren't really different.
NOTE: This is a port of commit 2f4e5bf5b6
from the "performance" branch, without the resolver scheduling changes.
This was causing test suite variances with pr1820472.v. It looks like
there might be a race in that program anyhow, but for now leave out the
resolver scheduling changes so that the rest of this commit can go in.
The __vpiPV objects express themselves as vpiPartSelect objects.
Add support for value change callbacks by attaching the callback
to the signal that we part select from.
The %load/v instruction was doing some spurious resizes of the vector
that comes from the signal. Eliminate those resizes that can be
removed, and optimize some that remain.
This is not a solution to all the problems, but is a better catch-all
then what is currently there. Allow the index field to be a T<> that
accesses the thread to get the address index.
Note that the lexor.lex currently returns the T<> as a T_SYMBOL, and the
users of T_SYMBOL objects need to interpret the meaning. This is
probably not the best idea, in light of all the other *<> formats that
now exist.
If a memory word was accessed before it was defined the
code was returning a zero width vector result. Now it
returns an appropriately sized vector of 'x'.
The memory opcodes %assign/mv, %load/mv and %set/mv
were removed by a previous patch. This one removes
the documentation from opcodes.txt. It also removes
the documentation for the .mem* statements for the
same reason.
Recursive branch resolution was scanning every branch end, even though
many branch ends share ports and need not be repeatedly scanned. Handle
marks and flags to cut off recursion where it is not needed so as to
save much run time.
Conflicts:
tgt-vvp/vvp_scope.c
Note that the draw_net_input.c takes in a lot of the codes that used
to be in vvp_scope.c, so some changes may have been lost.
This patch cleans up the dump routines and adds file and
line number information for errors. It also adds some of
the missing MemoryWord properties so they can now be
dumped and monitored correctly.
This patch adds $simparam and $simparam$str from Verilog-A.
The analog simulator parameters return 0.0 or N/A. The
vvp_cpu_wordsize system function has been moved into the
$simparam call and is now named CPUWordSize.
This patch also starts the factoring of common code in the
vpi directory. Some routines were renamed.
The priv.c file was renamed to sys_priv.c to match the
include file.
System functions can now have strings put to their output.
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.
The vvp_island classes are added, as well as support for tranif nodes
that use this concept. The result is a working implementation for
tranif0 and tranif1.
In the process, the symbol table functions were cleaned up and made
into templates for better type safety, and the vvp_net_ptr_t was
generalized so that it can be used by the branches in the island
implementation.
Also fix up the array handling to use the better symbol table support,
and to remember to clear its own table when linking is done.
The multiply runs does not need to do all the combinations of digit
products, because the higher ones cannot add into the result. Fix the
iteration to limit the scan.
Clarify that operands are typically 32bits, and have the code generator
make better use of this.
Also improve the %movi implementation to work well with marger vectors.
Add the %andi instruction to use immediate operands.
Use high radix long division to take advantage of the divide hardware
of the host computer. It looks brute force at first glance, but since
it is using the optimized arithmetic of the host processor, it is much
faster then implementing "fast" algorithms the hard way.
This instruction adds an integer value to the value being loaded. This
optimization uses subarrays instead of the += operator. This is faster
because the value is best loaded into the vector as a subarray anyhow.
The AND and OR operators for vvp_bit4_t are slightly tweaked to be
lighter and inlinable.
The vvp_vector4_t::set_bit is optimized to do less silly mask fiddling.
When processing wide vectors of these operations, it pays to process
them as vectors. This improves run-time performance. Have the run time
select vectorized or not based on the vector width.
Improve vvp_vector4_t methods copy_bits and the part selecting constructor
to make better use of vector words. Eliminate bit-by-bit processing by
these methods to take advantage of host processor words.
Improve vthread_bits_to_vector to use these improved methods and Update
the %load/av and %set/v instructions to take advantage of these changes.
The MinGW system() implementation appears to return the straight
return value instead of the waitpid() like result that more
normal systems return. Because of this just return the system()
result without processing for MinGW compilations.
Older version of the MinGW runtime (pre 3.14) just used the
underlying vsnprintf(). Which has some problems. The 3.14 version
has some nice improvements, but it has a sever bug when processing
"%*.*f", -1, -1, <some_real_value>. Because of this we need to use
the underlying version without the enhancements for now.
snprintf prints %p differently than the other printf routines
so use _snprintf to get consistent results.
Only build the PDF files if both man and ps2pdf exist.
MinGW does not know about the z modifier for %d, %u, etc.
Add some missing Makefile check targets.
These instructions can take advantage of the much optimized
vector_to_array function to do their arithmetic work quickly and
punt on X very quickly if needed. This helps some benchmarks.
Functions like $monitor need to attach callbacks to array words if
those words are to be monitored. Have the array hold all the callbacks
for words in the array, under the assumption that the monitored words
are sparse.
Array words don't have a vpiHandle with a label, so the %vpi_call
needs a special syntac for arguments that reference array words.
This syntax creates an array word reference that persists and can
be used at a VPI object by system tasks.
It is possible for the code generator to create .array/port objects
before the .array object that the port refereces, so use the resolv_list
to arrange for binding during cleanup.
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.
vpi_handle_by_name() was assuming it was always given a valid scope
object. In the context of vpi_chk_error() this is not required and
some users use/abuse the interface by calling the function with invalid
objects expecting a 0 return value. This patch adds an explicit check
for the supported types vpiScope and as an extension vpiModule.
Anything else should be flagged as an error once we have vpi_chk_error()
implemented, but for now it just returns 0.
The abs() function needs to be able to turn -0.0 into 0.0. This proved
to be too clunky (and perhaps impossible) to do with tests and jumps,
so add an %abs/wr opcode to do it using fabs().
The min/max functions need to take special care with the handling
of NaN operands. These matter, so generate the extra code to handle
them.
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 makes sure that objects either support vpiFile
and vpiLineNo or adds dummy code so that a runtime error
will not occur when accessing these properties. It also
returns 1 for the size of real variables and adds a
simplified vpiIndex that matches the Memory interface.
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.
Fix handling of cases where multiple specified delays are activated
for a given output. Need to apply the standard selection criteria
that gets the minimum value.
The %sub instruction didn't have the efficent implementation that
the %add instructions used. Update subtraction to use the array
method, so that it gets the same performance benefits.
The vvp_vector4_t often receives the results of vector arithmetic.
Add an optimized method for setting that data into the vector. Take
into account that arithmetic results have no X/Z bits, etc.
On some systems, 1UL<<X will make a mess if X is the size of
an unsigned long. This especially seems to be a problem on i386
systems. Protect those shifts in the vvp_net.cc.
By slightly altering the vvp_bit4_t encoding, a few simple
optimizations become possible. By making Z==2 and X==3, the
conversion from X/Z to X is a simple shift-or, and this can
be used to reduce the size of some of the bit4 operators.
In previous incarnations of the vvp runtime, bit vectors were passed
around as arrays of unsigned char that charried bit4 vectors. That
is no longer used. Remove the last vestiges of that dead code.
Remove dependencies on vvp_bit4_encoding outside of the vvp_net
core types. The table_functor_s class was the worst offfender and
was barely used, so it is now removed completely. There are a few
opcodes in vhtread.cc that also make vvvp_bit4_t encoding
assumptions (and used casts) and those have been fixed. There
were also various VPI interface functions that are fixed.
The vvp_vector4_t holds 4-value logic. This patch changes the encoding
of 4-value bits in the vector to use separate A- and B bit vectors,
with the B- vector signaling the A- bits that are not 0/1. This
allows rapid conversion to 2-value logic, and rapid tests for X
and Z values.
This patch fixes deassign to allow it to unlink from a driver.
It also zeros the cassign_link and force_link pointers after
they have been unlinked. Not doing this will cause an assert
if deassign/release are called multiple times (variable only).
This patch adds the ability to assign/deassign a bit or part select.
It also cleans up the code and fixes some problem in the forcing of
strength aware nets.
Rework the MUXZ and MUXR code to use an enum instead of plain
integers for the select input state. This makes it more obvious
what is actually going on.
This patch adds a flag to the MUXZ object to make sure that it will
run at time zero if needed. If this is not done the default Z result
may not be overridden by an X result.
This patch adds a %assign/av/d opcode. This is a version of %assign/av
that allows a delay expression. Ultimately this allows a dynamically
indexed array to have a delay expression (non-constant delay value).
This patch add (I believe back in) the < and > characters to the
general T_SYMBOL regular expression. The match was also moved after
the special T_SYMBOL cases so that flex would match them correctly.
Flex matching rules are longest or if a tie the first.
vvp did not have the ability to handle real parameters.
This patch fixes that omission. Parameters are only used
by vpi calls to get compile time information.
Threads used to be deleted when they finished processing code.
The problem with this is that some of the code could be
rescheduled to run at rosync ($strobe, etc.). This allowed the
thread data the code depended on to be reaped too soon. This
patch uses a new queue to schedule thread deletion. The queue
is processed after rosync has finished.
This patch makes the muxz and muxr functors schedule events
instead of directly calling vvp_send_*(). This prevents the
code from going into an infinite loop when the output feeds
back to the select.
This patch adds functionality to do a bit or part select release
when a constant value is forced to the net/register. It also adds an
error message when the user tries to force a signal to a bit/part
select. This is not currently handled by the run time, so is now
caught in the compiler (tgt-vvp). Where when this functionality is
needed, it will be easy to know what to do instead of trying to track
down some odd runtime functionality.
What this all means is that you can force a signal to an entire
signal or you can force a constant to any part of a signal (bit,
part or entire) and release any of the above. Technically the
release of a constant value does not have to match the force.
The runtime verifies that if you are releasing a signal driver
it is being done as a full release. I don't see an easy way to
check this in the compiler.
To fix the signal deficiencies we need to rework the force_link
code to allow multiple drivers and partial unlinking. Much of
this is in the runtime, but the %force/link operator may also
need to be changed like I did to the %release opcode.
vpi_put_value can mimic force and release with vpiForceFlag and
vpiReleaseFlag flags to the vpi_put_value call. With this patch,
the infrastructure is added to allow the flags argument to be passed
to the dispatched put_value function, and for signals handle those
flags as force/release of a net.
This patch reworks much of the ternary code to short circuit when
possible and supports real values better. It adds a blend operator
for real values that returns 0.0 when the values differ and the value
when they match. This deviates slightly from the standard which
specifies that the value for reals is always 0.0 when the conditional
is 'bx. There are also a couple bug fixes.
These fixes have not been ported to continuous assignments yet.
Ternary operators used at compile time and in procedural assignments
should be complete (short circuit and support real values).
draw_number_bool64() in tgt-vvp/eval_bool.c was using %ix/load to
load immediate values into registers greater than three. The problem
was that of_IX_LOAD() in vvp/vthread.cc was masking off the upper
bits. This was putting the results in the wrong register. This patch
removes the bit masking from of_IX_LOAD() and updates the %ix/load
documentation.
This patch fixes two problems. The first is that thr_check_addr()
was being used inconsistently. It should be passed a real address,
but the resize of the vector should be at least one more than this
address. The extra and unneeded CPU_WORD_BITS was also removed
from the routine.
The second problem involved an invalid memory access in
vvp_vector4_t::set_vec() when the vector being copied was an integer
multiple of the machine word width. Under this condition there would
be no remaining bits that needed to be copied but the routine was always
trying to copying some remaining bits. This code is now only executed
when there is a remainder.
Neither of these appear to be causing runtime problems. The second one
was found with valgrind. The first were found while tracking down the
second problem.
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 the power operator for unsigned bit based values
in a continuous assignment. It also refactors the power code for
normal expressions and continuous assignments.
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.
vvp/main.cc was including asm/page.h on GNU/Linux
systems, though that file does not often exist and
is not necessary.
Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@mit.edu>
This patch makes sure the delay is calculated correctly when only some
of the bits change and you are comparing against the initial (t0) value.
Basically you have to check the initial value against all the bits in
the new signal not just the first bit since the order that bits change
is not deterministic.
Allow user defined functions to take real value arguments and return
real value results in net contexts. Use the data type of the nets
attached to the ports to define the data types of the arguments and
return value.
When conditional delays are in use, it is sometimes possible for there
to be no delays available for a given input event. In that case, skip
the delay processing for that case instead of crashing.
Rework the encoding of a real value in the Cr<> label to be similar to
the format used by the %loadi/wr instruction. This mantissa-expoment
format better carries all the bits of the desired real value with
plenty of fidelity and range.
This patch adds a new opcode %load/avp0 that is used to load a
word from an array and add a value to it. %load/vp0 was
changed/fixed to do the summation at the result width not the
vector width. This allows small vectors to index large arrays with
an offset. A few errors in the opcodes.txt file were also fixed.
This patch schedules the input value change to .sfuns calls to avoid
potential recursion problems. It also cleans up two put_value calls
that did unneeded loops when putting VectorVals and the width was
greaten than 32 bits.
This patch adds a new flag to vvp "-n" that can be used to make
$stop and hence <Control-C> act like $finish. This may be desired
when using vvp in a non-interactive environment.
tgt-vvp/eval_expr.c uninitialized variables
vpi/sys_display.c uninitialized variables
vvp/vpi_priv.cc deprecated string constant usage
vvp/vpi_vthr_vector.cc deprecated string constant usage
the last entry invokes vpip_name_string() and uses const char *
in the same way as the other 9 callers in vvp/*.cc, the only
difference is that the argument is static instead of computed.
Rework the ivl_file_table_* interface to be more generic and easier
to use. Also all the vvp examples except for memory.vvp have been
fixed to run correctly with the current vvp. Someone with a bit more
experience will need to fix memory.vvp.
Add the vpiFile and vpiLineNo properties to system functions.
Most other objects have stubs that return "N/A"/0. Interactive
functions (called from the debugger) use <interactive> for the
file name.
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.
The recent changes to vpi_get_str had a minor problem that was
causing a core dump when trying to get the vpiFullName of an
arrayed signal. Basically vpi_get_str is not reentrant so the
name must be duplicated. It must also be duplicated to work with
the free in the code (do not free a result_buf).
Gets rid of a few warning: deprecated conversion from string
constant to 'char*', follows IEEE 1364-2001C 27.10 in more cases,
and fixes at least one real bug (look at the previous use of
strdup/strcat in real_var_get_str() and signal_get_str()).
This patch fixes a number of problems associated with the various dumpers.
1. It catches the problem uncovered in pr1809904 and prevents the core
dumps from happening. It prints a warning message if you try to change
the file after the program has started dumping data to the file.
2. It makes all the dumpers work in the same manner. Before the VCD
$dumpfile was processed at compile time, but the LXT/LXT2 versions
did this at run time. The correct place for this is the run time so
that you can pass the task a calculated name.
3. All the dumpers use common compiletf routines located in vcd_priv.c
4. Make the LXT/LXT2 $dumpfile commands only get the file name and
let $dumpvars actually open the file. This matches the VCD code.
5. Fix the $dumpfile code to allow calculated file names.
6. Make dumpvars without a scope/variable match all toplevel modules
not just the toplevel module the $dumpvars was located in. This
now matches the standard (2001).
7. Simplify the no dumper code (vcdoff.c) and add missing functions.
8. Cleanup the code and messages.
9. vvp can take -none for no dumper.
This patch fixes another minor problem introduced by the process
end of simulation events. Specifically if the compilation has
indicated we should not run do not even start the main event loop.
Parse SDF file annotations of edge sensitive delay paths.
Add vpi support for getting the specified edge sensitivity of
an edge sensitive path, and annotate paths with proper attention
to the edge that is specified for the path.
When loading a part select from the least significant bits, it is
OK to use the %load/v instruction to strip the high bits off. This
allows the zero-based part select to work in one step, without
loading excess bits.
The %ix/getv instruction loads an integer register directly from
a signal vector. This is an optimization that an index register
is loaded from an expression is only a signal. It avoids the thread
vector space.
Use the new array VPI functionality (vpiIndex, vpiParent, vpiArray)
to dynamically generate array word names. The old patch to implement
was mostly reverted.
Add the array related VPI calls. These will be used to generate
the array word name only as needed to conserve space. This patch
also makes scanmem3 from the vpi test work correctly after a
slight gold file update.
Where and expression is an immediate value added to a signal value,
it is possible to optimize them to a single instruction that combines
the load with an add at the same time.
The functor counters were left over from the v0.8 release. Rework
the counters to be relevent to the current state of vvp.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Williams <steve@icarus.com>
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).
Implement extended vvp command line options to control the amount
of detail that the sdf annotator emits while parsing the source
file.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Williams <steve@icarus.com>
Pass parsed SDF delays into the vvp run time as vpiScaledRealTime
variables, and handling the mapping of 2-values to 12-delays.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Williams <steve@icarus.com>
This was causing a core dump for a number of the vpi test cases.
The problem was that they did not need the simulation time, so it
was being set to NULL. The problem was the EndOfSimulation callback
was always setting cb_data.time to the current time. A big problem
when the pointer was NULL. The solution is to only set the time
when the pointer is not NULL
String values are known to be 2-value bits, so they are natural
candidates for using the movi instruction to load the value in
far fewer instructions. With this patch, up to 16bits (two bytes)
at a time can be loaded per instruction.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Williams <steve@icarus.com>
A previous patch I submitted to try and keep the $finish time
events missed the case of an infinite loop that did not advance
the micro time step which then prevents the debugger from
generating a finish (you can interrupt an infinite loop, but you
could not finish out of it). This patch adds a check for a
finish after each debugger call to fix this problem.
When nets are forced by non-constant expressions, the value is linked
to the destination net through a force_link. This patch adds the code
needed to unlink a force/link so that release and new force/links can
work. This fixes pr1735836.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Williams <steve@icarus.com>
This patch adds marks at simulation end if needed and enabled (on
and not over the limit) for vcd/lxt/lxt2 files. End of simulation
callbacks also now have the correct simulation time. The default
file names for lxt and lxt2 now match the vcd file except for the
extension. lx2 is also an alias for lxt2 and the default lxt2 file
extension is lx2. This matches what GTKWave expects. Any lxt2
diagnostic output print LXT2 instead of LXT to make it clear which
dumper you are using.
This patch fixes/enhances the array part select code. It also
verifies that any lval array index in a continuous assignment
is a constant value. Also, %set/av now uses index register 1 as
described in the documentation (as a bit offset).
Add/rework VPI access to modpaths. This allows VPI code access to
paths described in specify blocks. In the process, the VPI structure
has been reworked to conform to the IEEE1364 standard.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Williams <steve@icarus.com>
Cleanup klunky implementation of vpi_get/put_delays for modpath
objects. Remove some useless members.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Williams <steve@icarus.com>
Wide division/modulus (more bits than unsigned long) gave incorrect
results when both the divisor and dividend where the same. They also
did not produce an error message when dividing by zero.
The modpath source node defines the modpath object, and carries the
nodes for the source expression. The modpath outputs are references
by pointers to the vpiModPath that is not in itself a vpi object
any more. This makes the VPI view of a module path look like the
source-destinaiton pair that is the IEEE1364 description of the
modpath.
Cary R
Stephen Williams
Martin Whitaker
Patrick Doyle
Larry Doolittle
Martin Whitaker
Martin Whitaker
Holger Wächtler
Stephen Williams
J Varshney
Michael Witten