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.
These checks are not needed since we have already verified that
we have a 64 bit immediate value. This is likely old code that
should have been removed when the original functionality was
changed.
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.
This patch modifies the real ternary operator code to support
unlimited tail recursion without overflowing the thread
registers. Head recursion is still limited by the available
registers.
It fixes the thread word checks to use a new define that has
the correct number of thread words (16). It adds a message
instead of just an assert if the thread words are exhausted.
And it also changes some of the error messages to use vvp.tgt
in the message to be consistent with the other messages.
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.
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.
gcc on OpenBSD reported shadow warnings for variables, arguments named
log, time and exp. This patch renanes those variables to logic, timerec
and expr.
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.
The comparison and reduction operators only have a single output bit
that can be delayed.
The comparison of real values always produces a logical value so the
delay type is not dependent on the arguments type.
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.
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.
When building a modpath the source for the modpath must have the
same scope as the modpath. This is required to make the back
annotation work correctly (have the correct names).
This patch enhances elaboration to drop/ignore zero replication
count constants. Not doing this was causing problems later in
the compiler. We still pass non-constant expressions since
both user and system functions must be run for their possible
side effects. Constants can never have a side effect so just
dropping them is acceptable.
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).
This patch mimics what was done for normal assignments to get the
width correct for nonblocking assignments when converting a real
r-value to a l-value vector.
When selecting bits from unsized literals, we do not put a limit
on the size of the literal, so there is no top above which we
stop getting literal bits.
When handling the $signed/$unsigned system functions, the compiler
was applying the new signed/unsigned property to the NetExpr object
representing the input argument. This caused the input argument to
be evaluated incorrectly. This patch fixes this by applying the new
property to the NetExpr object created to pad the result to the
required size.
In testing this fix, it was also discovered that the width of the
input argument expression was not being calculated correctly. This
patch also fixes this issue.
The padding for a signal select was using the signal to determine
if the padding should be singed or not. In reality this should be
unsigned padding unless the select was enclosed in a $signed().
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.
When evaluating a function argument expression we need to use either
the expression width or the argument width which ever is larger. This
matches the way normal assignments work. We then only take the bits
needed at the end.
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)
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 a function in a continuous assignment is passed an array word as
an argument, syntactically incorrect vvp code is generated. This is
because the code calls draw_net_input to generate the input labels
part way through writing out the .ufunc statement. If an input is
an array word, draw_net_input causes a .array/port statement to be
emitted, which gets written out in the middle of the .ufunc statement.
This patch fixes the problem by collecting the necessary input labels
prior to starting writing the .ufunc statement.
The .delay (x,y,z) functor and the get_number_immediate() function
only supports 32 bit delay values. This patch adds an error message
if the user passes a larger, but valid value.
- Add missing dependency of configure on aclocal.m4.
- Remove config stamp files in make distclean (and fix another for
loop in base make distclean that I missed)
- Add stamp files to .gitignore
Use the time stamp file technique recommended by the autoconf manual
to prevent unneccesary rebuilds because of an unchanged config.h.
Uses the automake trick of generating the stamp files in the
_AC_AM_CONFIG_HEADER_HOOK macro instead of littering the source
directory with stamp-h.in files.
Add an extra ./config.status run after ./config.status --recheck
because with --recheck it doesn't actually try to remake the generated
files (and thus doesn't make the timestamp files). Thus without the
extra run, each stamp-*-h target would need to independently run
./config.status to make sure it wasn't changed by the configuration
change.
An orthogonal fix of how config.status is called in subdirectories.
When in a subdirectory and config.status is called with
../config.status and $(srcdir) is a relative path, config.status gets
confused. Fixed by replacing '../config.status --file=Makefile.in'
with 'cd ..; ./config.status --file=<dir>/Makefile.in'
Even open nets have a driver for HiZ. The BUFZ is needed as something
to hang .net objects. This is another step closer to not needing the
"create_constant_node" hack in vvp/words.cc.
In the olden days, the .alias was necessary to create a net name
that is an alias to an existing net in the netlist. But now that
the .net no longer creates a node in the netlist, ALL .net objects
are aliases of a sort, so this (mis)feature gets in the way.
The tranif input pins are normally nothing special, but sometimes
they are fed back from the switch body. In this case, the control
needs to see the current *output* from the fed back port, in order
to get the results that people expect.
Control inputs (i.e. the control input to tranif switches)
are not driven in any way by the island, so use .import records
instead of .port records to bring them into the island. Properly
handle the now potentially different bindings within the island
and outside the island. This means the draw_net_input_x function
is a little more sophisticated, and the node data more complex.
Local nets that have no (zero) drivers are dead weight. Since
they have no drivers, they are not being used anywhere. Since
they are local, they are not force-able.
This doesn't have any significant runtime consequence other then
to create a functor that is otherwise stable. But this does connect
to .net nodes more naturally, and gets me a step closer to banning
Cx<> labels as arguments to .net records.
If a signed signal is driving a part select in a CA and the width
is less than 32 bits. the value will be zero extended and will
not work for negative values. This patch adds a warning that this
could happen. This will be fixed in development.
This patch adds an optimization when a constant indexed part
select covers the entire L-value. It also fixes a few issues
in the code generator related to part selects.
In auto scopes, nets cannot work and probably are are artifact of
elaboration. So elide local nets in auto scopes.
Also, get net inputs from the inputs of nets. This is a step
towards eliminating the label on nets altogether.
This patch adds file and line number information to named events.
It also modifies the draw_eval_expr_wid() routine to fail with
an appropriate message for named events. This checking needs to
be pushed into the elaboration stage, but this will give a better
message than we had before.
It was documented that a IVL_LPM_CONCAT would use _size() instead
of _selects(). This patch adds the functionality to _size() and
converts all the Icarus provided code generators to use _size().
_select() will be kept for compatibility in V0.9.
This patch is a major rewrite of the indexed part selects (+: and -:).
It made the following enhancements:
1. Make indexed part selects work correctly with both big and little
endian vectors.
2. Add a warning flag that warns about constant out of bounds/or 'bx
indexed selects.
3. Moved the -: parameter code to its own routine.
4. Added support for straddling before part selects in a CA.
5. Added more assert(! number_is_unknown) statements.
6. Add warning for &PV<> select with a signed index signal that is
less than the width of an int. This will be fixed later.
7. Add support for loading a 'bx/'bz constant into a numeric register.
8. Add a number of signed value fixes to the compiler/code generator.
9. Major fix of draw_select_expr() in the code generator.
A while ago we changed how variable arrays were accessed. This change
did not get propagated to the non-blocking assignment for real array
words. This patch adds a warning that this is not currently supported.
We can add this to development, but not V0.9 (interface change).
This patch evaluates the whole concatenation expression and
makes the concatenation padding sign aware. This is needed
when $signed({...}) is passed as an argument.
A repetition is just N copies of the base expression not N
evaluations of the base expression. This is only a problem
when functions have side effects. It's also faster to copy.
The evaluation must also be done when the replication count
is zero (see 1364-2005).
This was incorrectly using the expression sign not checking if
the two sub-expressions are both signed. This likely used to
work, but in the context of $signed which sets the expression
to signed so we can have a signed expression without both
sub-expressions being signed.
When processing procedural real expressions we need to evaluate
non-real sub-expressions as bit based expressions and then
convert the result to a real value. This is particularly import
for integer division.
This patch cleans up some unneeded code. Releases some allocated
memory before the compiler quits and fixes a couple minor memory
leaks in the compiler and vvp code generator.
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 fixes the code generator to correctly create three value
constant delays. It also fixes a bug in the compiler related to the
precalculation of the high-Z delay when only two delays are given.
Previously if was using a pointer not a value comparison to find
the minimum value.
Variable delays should work when one or three values are given.
For the two value case we need to do a comparison at run time and
that will require changing the compiler/run time interface so that
can only go into the V0.10 branch. This patch can be applied to
both development and V0.9. I have added a sorry message and an
assert for this case. I will add the variable two delay case at a
later time. We also do not support mixing constant and variable
delays on a single statement. That is a much bigger change and
can wait until someone asks for it.
The previous code looked for more than one array word to determine
if the given signal was an array or not. The problem with this is
that a single word memory was considered a signal. This is fixed
here by looking for an array_dimension to be greater than zero.
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.
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.
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.
By not creating Nexus objects until necessary, we avoid creating a
lot of spurious objects. In fact, it is true that almost every
link that is created and connected to another link will create a
spurious Nexus object without this patch.
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
Continue 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 test suite.
This patch set covers C code, with the notable exception of
vpi/lxt_write{,2}.c.
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.
The power operator is different in that it uses the signed version
if either of it's arguments are signed. This patch fixes the code
generator to do this correctly.
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.
It is ot uncommon for the arguments to logical or to leave stuff
in bit registers 4-7. Allow the lor itself to take advantage of
that to save some %mov instructions.
When padding expressions, pre-allocate the target space and calculate
the sub-expression directly into the target. Then pad from there. This
saves a move into the result space.
This patch updates the GNU address in the -V output, adds the
VERSION_TAG info to the tgt-vvp back end and adds the whole -V
hook to the tgt-vhdl back end.
In a procedural single bit non-negated reduction (&, | or ^)
we need to translate a 1'bz to a 1'bx. The easiest way to do
that is with two %inv opcodes. This patch modifies the code
generator to do this for this very special case.
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.
In the vvp code generator, when zero/sign extending a sub-expression,
the sub-expression is first evaluated and stored in one location in
the thread vector store, then is copied and extended into a second
location. The storage used for the initial sub-expression evaluation
is never deallocated.
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.
Even on 64 bit machines immediate values should be limited to
32 bits so that the a.out file will run correctly on a 32 bit
machine. This patch fixes a number of places where the code
generator was not checking for/observing this.
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).
When evaluating an expression into an index register bit 4 is used
to determine if the expression had any X/Z bits. In the case of a
constant immediate value this can not happen so make sure the bit
is cleared.
We need consistent pointer output (%p) and under MinGW we need to
us _snprintf instead of snprintf to get this. The recent event
control addition missed this. This has been reported to the MinGW
developers and they are working on a solution.
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.
It is possible for signe-extend to have a delay attached to it. (Same
for repeat.) Handle it like other LPM devices, by stuffing a .delay
device into the output path of the device, if appropriate.
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.
This patch adds blocking repeat event controls and also makes the
base repeat statement sign aware. If the argument to repeat is
negative (it must be a signed variable) then this is treated just
like an argument of 0 (there is no looping). Doing this allows us
to model the repeat event control as follows.
lhs = repeat(count) @(event) rhs;
is translated to:
begin
temp = rhs;
repeat (count) @(event);
lhs = temp;
end
This patch also pushes the non-blocking event control
information to the elaboration phase where it will report they
are not currently supported.
Be more sophisticated with the code generated for constant values.
When values are large, use an optimal mix of %movi and %mov
instructions to get the desired value, no matter what the content.
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.
This patch fixes a bug in the VVP code generator that causes syntactically
incorrect code to be generated if an event expression contains a memory or
array port.
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.
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 %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.
Actually, the immediate value handling is a little chaotic and should
be cleaned up. This patch opens the door for allowing signed immediate
values, and uses them in a few places where they are explicitly handled.
We must go through the opcodes that can take immediate values and make
explicit whether they are signed/unsigned/etc, and what their size
limits are.
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.
Stephen Williams
Cary R
Martin Whitaker
Jared Casper
Larry Doolittle
Martin Whitaker
Martin Whitaker