filters need to be able to cope with parts of vectors moving through
the net. It makes the most sense to handle every filter as a part-
selected filter.
&PV<> was just using vpi_get_value() when a signal was driving
the select. This incorrectly returned 0 for 'bx or 'bz. This
patch adds a check for an undefined value and returns INT_MIN
for this case.
Now that .net nodes are references to filters into vvp_net_t objects
and are no longer functors on their own, the .alias node becomes
exactly the same as a .net itself.
When releasing a net, the release needs to propagate the driven
value. When releasing a variable, the driven value must be set
to the previously forced value.
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.
Stephen Williams
Cary R
Martin Whitaker
Patrick Doyle
Larry Doolittle