This patch adds support for tracing procedural statement execution in vvp.
This is accomplished by adding a new opcode that is inserted before the
code that represents a procedural statement. These opcodes also trigger
a message whenever time advances. By default these opcodes are not added.
To add them, pass the -pfileline=1 flag to the compiler. In the future we
may add support for turning the debug output on and off once the opcodes
have been added with a system task or from the interactive prompt.
Currently the vvp target emits multiple single bit %mov instructions
to perform sign extension. This patch adds a new %pad instruction
that allows sign extension to be performed with just one instruction.
This patch fixes a few compilation warnings introduced by the
enumeration code. It also updates the ivl.def file so that the
proper routines get exported under windows.
Create the v2009.vpi module to include SystemVerilog core
functions, and start out with some of the enum methods.
Add to vvp support for creating enum types, including some
vpi access methods.
In ivl_alloc.h we redefine malloc(), realloc() and calloc() to have
standard error checking. We don't want to do this for anything that
comes from the standard headers. This specifically doesn't work if
a C++ header files does std::malloc, etc.
Also change to -W instead of -Wextra since that is more portable. I
plan to add a check from -Wextra and use it when available since it
is more descriptive.
This patch changes all the iterator code to use a prefix ++ instead
of postfix since it is more efficient (no need for a temporary). It
is likely that the compiler could optimize this away, but lets make
it efficient from the start.
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 -Wextra to the compilation flags for C++ files in
the vvp and vpi subdirectories. It also fixes all the problems
found while adding -Wextra. This mostly entailed removing some of
the unused arguments, removing the name for others and using the
correct number of initializers.
This patch adds support for running cppcheck from the Makefile. It also
standardizes the order of some of the targets. It renames vpip_format.c
to vpip_format.cc and fixes the size of the array tables to make room
for the trailing NULL. Found when using a C++ compiler.
This patch adds a few missing initializations to various constructors
in the vvp directory. It also enhances the array alias code to copy
more values from the aliased array.
Create the .var/2u and .var/2s variable records and give them
basic implementations. Make available to VPI the proper types
for the SystemVerilog types that these variables represent.
This patch adds support for a UDP with variable delays. In the process the
intrinsic support for delays was removed from the UDP functor and replaced
with a call to the .delay functor. Both a normal gate and a UDP now use the
same code to generate the delay.
This patch adds checks that the delay count is correct for the
various gates and adds support for a missing variable decay
time. For this case the decay time is the minimum of the rise
and fall times. This is denoted by setting the decay variable
to 0 in the vvp file. vvp notes this and sets an ignore decay
time property in the base delay. This turns off the ability
to set the decay time and the minimum delay calculation will
also update the decay time.
Elaborate conditional assignments with BUFZ devices that do *NOT*
preserve strengths. Add a BUFT (transparent) device that can be
used in those cases where I really need a transparent buffer.
A real delay must be scaled and rounded using the local precision
before it is finally scaled to the simulation time units. This
patch fixes the compiler to do this correctly or generate the
correct code for run time calculated delays. Delays in a CA
already worked correctly. The run time was also fixed to scale
modpath (SDF back annotation) delays correctly.
This patch modifies the vvp main code to cleanup if there was an
error compiling the input file. There are still a few issues, but
this takes care of most of them.
This patch adds two new opcodes and the infrastructure needed to call
system functions as tasks. The normal %vpi_call will generate an error
if a system function is called as a task. %vpi_call/w will generate a
warning and will ignore any value returned by the function. %vpi_call/i
will ignore the system function return value and will not print a
message. Adding this is a feature request and is supported in
SystemVerilog. Next I need to add flags to control this depending on
the compiler generation and possibly other flags.
I may leave the cast to void (%vpi_call/i) functionality unimplemented
for now.
This patch caches the vpi_call error messages (task/function does
not exist, task being called as a function and function being
called as a task). This allows us to display the file name and line
number information for the invalid usage.
The functions (malloc, free, etc.) that used to be provided in
malloc.h are now provided in cstdlib for C++ files and stdlib.h for
C files. Since we require a C99 compliant compiler it makes sense
that malloc.h is no longer needed.
This patch also modifies all the C++ files to use the <c...>
version of the standard C header files (e.g. <cstdlib> vs
<stdlib.h>). Some of the files used the C++ version and others did
not. There are still a few other header changes that could be done,
but this takes care of much of it.
This patch documents that the lxt2/lx2 dumper supports -speed and
-space options. It adds -speed, -space, -space-speed and
-speed-space options for the fst dumper. Here are results for a
gate level back annotated design using the fst dumper.
<none> 12.88 seconds 3.5 Meg dump file.
-space 12.89 seconds 2.9 Meg dump file.
-speed 12.36 seconds 4.6 Meg dump file.
-<both> 12.84 seconds 3.2 Meg dump file.
This patch is a slight modification to files Tony Bybell (the author of
GTKWave) send to me. We still have a few more changes we plan to make,
but this should be functional enough for initial testing. Multi-treading
and speed/size flags will be added shortly.
The SunPro compiler does not support struct definitions inside an
anonymous union. This patch moves the struct definition so that both
gcc and SunPro 12.1 compile this without issue.
gcc supports creating an array with a run time defined size. The
SunPro compiler for OpenSolaris does not. This patch converts the
array creation to use conventional (malloc based) array creation.
This patch is similar to the previous patches and cleans up a single
place in the vvp directory where an enum had a trailing ',' and a
place where a C++ routine needed extern "C".
Some new shadow issues have crept in. This patch fixes these new
issues and adds -Wshadow to the normal warning flags to keep any
new occurrences from happening.
This patch updates all the Makefile.in files and configure.in
as follows:
Do not use the -Wall warning flag when using the SunPro compiler.
The SunPro compiler uses -xMD instead of -MD.
There are still more fixes needed before Icarus will compile
on OpenSolaris.
Tran islands must do their calculations using the forced values,
if any. But the output from a port must also be subject to force
filtering. It's a little ugly, but hopefully won't hurt the more
normal case.
It is acceptable to call delete on a NULL object. It's also acceptable
to assign the value to zero if it is already zero. Removing the
superfluous if should produce slightly better code since there is no
conditional to deal with except for what is likely in the delete
implementation, but that should be highly optimized.
This patch cleans up some style issues: no need to check that a value
is defined before freeing or deleting it, use C++ style casts, make
sure to NULL terminate strncpy(), empty() is faster than size() for
size == 0 or size >= 0 checks, re-scope some variables, etc.
This patch adds support for iterating over the list of vpiUserSystf
tasks/functions that have vpiUserDefn set. The vpiUserDefn property
is true by default, but you can call vpip_make_systf_system_defined()
to set this property false (will hide the vpiUserSystf object). All
the normal system tasks/functions have been modified to call this
procedure to remove them from the list of vpiUserSystf objects. Only
user defined system tasks or functions should appear in the list.
vpi_compare_objects() is just a simple are the two pointers the
same. This works correctly for the vpiUserSystf objects, but the
other handle objects have not been checked.
This patch changes system tasks and functions to use the vpiUserSystf
property and returns this information when vpi_register_systf() is
called. It also adds the vpiUserDefn property for system tasks and
functions which for now always returns 1 (true). System task and
functions can now get a handle to this information using the
vpiUserSystf property. vpi_systf_info() returns pointers to the
real data so the user will need to be careful when using the pointer
fields (e.g. tfname, user_data, etc.). This is a shallow copy. A deep
copy would require the user to free the various fields and I'm not
certain it is even possible or desirable to copy the user_data for
all cases.
A stub for vpi_compare_objects() was also added since I will need
that when testing the second half of the patch (add iteration over
all the vpiUserSystf objects and add a method to control vpiUserDefn).
To ensure the initial propagation of 'x' values at time-0 does not
trigger any events, the propagation of these values needs to be
completed before any statements that wait on events are executed.
vvp has a pre-simulation event queue to handle this, but some
functors defeat this by postponing their output propagation using
the stratified event queue. This patch fixes this by using the
pre-simulation event queue to schedule functor output propagation
until initial value propagation is complete.
To match the behaviour of other simulators, delayed bit-based signals
should have the value 'x' and delayed real valued signals should have
the value 0.0 until the true initial value has propagated. This patch
provides this behaviour.
Under certain circumnstances, the vvp code generator can generate
a .part/pv that directly feeds an input port of a .concat. This
patch adds a recv_vec4_pv method to the vvp_fun_concat class to
handle this case. It also changes the initial value of the stored
vector from X to Z to correctly handle bits which are not driven.
If a net is driven by a simple variable, an initial 'x' value is
propagated to the net at time-0. The same thing should happen if
a net is driven by a variable array word. This patch makes this
happen by scheduling an initial event for each array port attached
to a variable array.
The vpi_get_value() function should not crash when called during
the compiletf phase. This patch fixes this by returning 'bx for
any vectors in thread space. It also fixes some other minor things
that my test code uncovered. Most of the other objects work as
expected.
This patch adds support for passing the delay selection to the
VPI interface. It adds a new property to both the vpi_get and
vpi_get_str calls to return the current delay selection. It also
defines three constants for minimum, typical and maximum
delay selections.
This patch adds support for passing the delay selection to vvp.
It adds a new header :ivl_delay_selection "<value>"; that has
the values TYPICAL, MINIMUM or MAXIMUM depending on the -T
flag to iverilog. This information is needed by $sdf_annotate
to select that appropriate value for a triplet when
"TOOL_CONTROL" is specified (default).
When using MinGW, routines registered via atexit() inside a
DLL are only called when the DLL is detached. If not detached
manually, DLLs are automatically detached *after* all remaining
open files are closed. This meant that by the time the LXT or
LXT2 close_dumpfile routine was called, the dump file handle
was no longer valid, so any remaining output was lost. This
patch fixes the problem by manually detaching the VPI modules.
After changing an array word, vvp propagates the change to every port
attached to the array. The code did not properly handle the case of
an array port declared in an automatic scope with an associated array
declared in a static scope.
The process of inverting and copying can be collapsed into a single
operation that should run a little faster. Also, inverting readily
vectorizes itself. I've also possibly reduced useless vvp_not_fun
iterations.
Also, include some minor tweaks to the vvp_vector8_t handling of
vector copies. This is more to clean up code, although it should
slightly improve performance as well.
The scope thread rework broek --with-valgrind builds due to the
different handling of the list of threads. Rework valgrind enabled
handling of the thread set within a scope.
The scope contains the threads running within. The rework of this
patch allows all threads to know their scope, and cleans up the
handling of threads listed in the scope.
dlltool which is used by both MinGW and Cygwin to create dynamic
libraries must have the name of the executable it creates the
library/information from exactly match the installed executable
name. If we have a suffix then it must be used. This patch adds
that to the build process for vvp since it can be installed with
a suffix. It also modifies the check routines since you must run
vvp with a suffix if the library it links to was built for a
suffixed executable.
In combination with the patch to make all operations on thread words
operate on 64-bit values, this patch ensures casts between real values
and large vector values work correctly.
The vvp thread word storage had previously been changed to always store
64-bit values, but some instructions still only operate on native long
values. This patch ensures all instructions that modify thread words
support 64-bit values.
We do have one C program in the vvp directory so add CFLAGS to
the Makefile. This patch also modifies the two local programs
tables and version to use -Wall.
The Cygwin compiler is a bit picky. This patch adds some casts
to remove compilation warnings. In the past I have had warnings
off because of problems with the STL, but for this directory we
may as well squash as many warings as we can. It also does not
recognize that an assert(0) or assert(false) ends a routine so
it complains about no return at end of function or variables
not being defined.
The fix for pr1830834 causes vvp to only delete a completed thread
when the simulation time next advances. If a procedural model is
being simulated which makes many task or function calls within a
single time step, this can lead to excessive memory use. This patch
modifies the behaviour so that thread deletion is only delayed if
that thread has caused a sync event to be placed in the event queue.
This should catch all cases where the thread private data can be
accessed after a thread has terminated.
These explicit dependencies are not normally needed (because they
are covered by automatic dependency generation) but when the "-jN"
flag is passed to gmake, they help gmake schedule parallel builds.
(cherry picked from commit 5479aaf721)
During startup it is possible for input port to not yet be
initialized even after some other input ports trigger the
function to be evaluated. Handle this case by substituting
a vector of 'bx for the uninitialized inputs. This will shake
out when the simulation gets going, and only matters for user
defined functions in continuous assignments.
While we're at it, have vec4_unfiltered_value return a reference
to reduce copying of vectors.
Try to put all the version stamps into common version_base.h
and version_stamp.h header files. All the source programs then
get their version from these header files.
Also handle the version stamps in the man pages by using the
version_*.h header file contents to edit the version strings
in the man page title bar markers.
If the source and destination of a subvector to be moved in the
vvp_vector4_t::mov method is nicely word aligned, and the transfer
size is a full word, then we ar much better off handling that as
a special case. This makes the move faster, and also avoids some
shift overflow errors.
Cary R
Stephen Williams
Martin Whitaker
Picture Elements Inc