This implements and enforces the full set of rules for determining
timescales in SystemVerilog. The previous relaxation of the rules
that allowed timescales to be redefined within the compilation unit
scope has been removed. Time unit and precision redeclarations are
now recognised after a nested module declaration.
SystemVerilog allows tasks, functions, and classes to be defined at the
root level or inside packages, so we can't rely on an enclosing module
being present to provide the timescale.
Added: basic vpiPort VPI Objects for vpiModulkes
vpiDirection, vpiPortIndex, vpiName, vpiSize attributes
Since ports do not exist as net-like entities (nets either side
module instance boundaries are in effect connect directly in
the language front-ends internal representation) the port information
is effectively just meta-data passed through t-dll interface and
output as a additional annotation of module scopes in vvp.
Added: vpiLocalParam attribute for vpiParameter VPI objects
Added: support build for 32-bit target on 64-bit host (--with-m32
option to configure.in and minor tweaks to Makefiles and systemc-vpi).
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.
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.
Class methods belong in a class scope, not the containing module.
So create a lexical scope that carries tasks and functions and
create a PClass to represent classes.
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.
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.
This patch is based on one from "bruce <bruce1914@gmail.com>".
I've applied all but the elaboration code, which I rewrote to
properly work with the elaboration work queue. I also constrained
the implementation so that the parameter name must have exactly
two components: the root scope name and the parameter name. This
is necessary to keep the defparm processing sane. The comments
from bruce's original patch are as follows:
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This patch would provide function to define parameter from command
line. This serves the same functionality as 'defparam' in Verilog
source code, but provide much more ease for using. Parameter
definition can be write in command file, with following syntax:
+parameter+<scope>.<parameter>=<val>
*Do not apply any space between them*
The scope name should be full hierachical name with root name at
the begining. The following example would override test.T1 with
new value 2'b01:
+parameter+test.T1=2'b01
'test' here is the root module name. The parameter value here
should be constant. Parameter definition can also be write in
the command line:
iverilog -Ptest.T1=2'b01
This serves the same functionality with the previous example.
If we define the same parameter in command file and command line,
the one in command line would over-write all others.
Icarus has recognized this directive, but it did not do anything
with the information. This patch adds the functionality for most
common cases. It adds this by changing the input net type from
wire/tri to tri1 or tri0 depending on the pull. The issue is that
if the input net is not a wire or tri this is not safe and should
really be done as an external pull gate connected to the input.
We will need to handle this is it ever comes up. For now a sorry
message is printed.
This patch adds support for the `resetall directive.
It also changes `celldefine, `endcelldefine and `resetall
to no longer grab text following them. These directives do
not take an argument so they should not be grabbing any
text and silently discarding it.
The `timescale processing was reworked to handle being
reset and hooks were added to easily change the default
time units and precision when we add that feature request.
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.
The goal is to completely remove the svector class because the standard
vector class works perfectly well. This removes the uses in the Module.h
header file.
Currently, parameters and localparams declared in tasks, functions,
generate blocks, and named blocks are placed in the parent module
scope. Event declarations in these scopes are not permitted (a
syntax error is reported). This patch corrects this behaviour, so
that all the above declarations are accepted and are placed in the
scope in which they are declared.
Note that the IEEE standard does not permit parameter declarations
in generate blocks. This patch causes the parser to reject such
declarations.
The l-value of a defparam assignment is a hierarchical name that may
include array selects to select scopes from module arrays. Therefore
it makes no sense to store parsed defparams in a map. Instead, they
should go into an ordered list. This also maked more sense because later
defparams *may* have the same name as a previous defparam, and will
override the previous defparam. So replace the map of parsed defparams
with a list of parsed defparams.
Also, as soon as the defparam expression is elaborated, the list entry
is no longer needed, so delete it. Save memory.
Generating task/function definitions involves getting the functions
to put themselves into the generate scheme instead of the module,
and getting elaboration to elaborate those definitions in the
generate scheme.
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.
Handle parameter value ranges as far as the pform. The +-inf expressions
are not handled yet, nor is the single value exclude, but the other
cases are handled.
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.
Normally processes are found in the lexical scope of a module, but
there are special cases where processes (other then task/function
definitions) are in other lexical scopes. The most likely case is
initilizations that are in the lexical scope where the assigned
variable is declared.
In the process, the behaviors list is kept in the base PScope class
instead of the Module or any other derived lexical scope class.
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.
Modules, functions and tasks are named scopes so derive them all
from the PScope base class. These items all take scoped items, so
the eventual plan is to move these items into PScope.
Martin Whitaker
Cary R
Arun Persaud
Andrew Stevens
Stephen Williams
Martin Whitaker
Larry Doolittle
steve