/* * VHDL code generation for processes. * * Copyright (C) 2008 Nick Gasson (nick@nickg.me.uk) * * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or * (at your option) any later version. * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the * GNU General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along * with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., * 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA. */ #include "vhdl_target.h" #include "vhdl_element.hh" #include #include #include #include /* * Implementing blocking assignment is a little tricky since * the semantics are a little different to VHDL: * * In Verilog a blocking assignment (=) can be used anywhere * non-blocking assignment (<=) can be. In VHDL blocking * assignment (:=) can only be used with variables, and * non-blocking assignment (<=) can only be used with signals. * All Verilog variables are translated into signals in the * VHDL architecture. This means we cannot use the VHDL := * operator directly. Furthermore, VHDL variables can only * be declared within processes, so it wouldn't help to * make all Verilog variables VHDL variables. * * The solution is to generate a VHDL variable in a process * whenever a blocking assignment is made to a signal. The * assignment is made to this variable instead, and * g_assign_vars below remembers the temporary variables * that have been generated. Any subsequent blocking assignments * are made to the same variable. At either the end of the * process or a `wait' statement, the temporaries are assigned * back to the signals, and the temporaries are forgotten. This * has exactly the same (external) behaviour as the Verilog * blocking assignment, since no external process will be able * to observe that the assignment wasn't made immediately. * * For example: * * initial begin * a = 5; * b = a + 3; * end * * Is translated to: * * process is * variable a_Var : Some_Type; * variable b_Var : Some_Type; * begin * a_Var := 5; * b_Var := a_Var + 3; * a <= a_Var; * b <= b_Var; * end process; */ typedef std::map var_temp_set_t; static var_temp_set_t g_assign_vars; /* * Called whenever a blocking assignment is made to sig. */ void blocking_assign_to(vhdl_process *proc, ivl_signal_t sig) { std::string var(get_renamed_signal(sig)); std::string tmpname(var + "_Var"); if (g_assign_vars.find(var) == g_assign_vars.end()) { // This is the first time a non-blocking assignment // has been made to this signal: create a variable // to shadow it. if (!proc->have_declared_var(tmpname)) { vhdl_decl *decl = proc->get_parent()->get_decl(var); assert(decl); vhdl_type *type = new vhdl_type(*decl->get_type()); proc->add_decl(new vhdl_var_decl(tmpname.c_str(), type)); } rename_signal(sig, tmpname); g_assign_vars[tmpname] = sig; } } /* * Assign all _Var variables to the corresponding signals. This makes * the new values visible outside the current process. This should be * called before any `wait' statement or the end of the process. */ void draw_blocking_assigns(vhdl_process *proc) { var_temp_set_t::const_iterator it; for (it = g_assign_vars.begin(); it != g_assign_vars.end(); ++it) { std::string stripped(strip_var((*it).first)); vhdl_decl *decl = proc->get_decl(stripped); assert(decl); vhdl_type *type = new vhdl_type(*decl->get_type()); vhdl_var_ref *lhs = new vhdl_var_ref(stripped.c_str(), NULL); vhdl_expr *rhs = new vhdl_var_ref((*it).first.c_str(), type); // TODO: I'm not sure this will work properly if, e.g., the delay // is inside a `if' statement proc->get_container()->add_stmt(new vhdl_nbassign_stmt(lhs, rhs)); // Undo the renaming (since the temporary is no longer needed) rename_signal((*it).second, stripped); } g_assign_vars.clear(); } /* * Remove _Var from the end of a string, if it is present. */ std::string strip_var(const std::string &str) { std::string result(str); size_t pos = result.find("_Var"); if (pos != std::string::npos) result.erase(pos, 4); return result; } /* * Convert a Verilog process to VHDL and add it to the architecture * of the given entity. */ static int generate_vhdl_process(vhdl_entity *ent, ivl_process_t proc) { // Create a new process and store it in the entity's // architecture. This needs to be done first or the // parent link won't be valid (and draw_stmt needs this // to add information to the architecture) vhdl_process *vhdl_proc = new vhdl_process(); ent->get_arch()->add_stmt(vhdl_proc); // If this is an initial process, push signal initialisation // into the declarations if (ivl_process_type(proc) == IVL_PR_INITIAL) vhdl_proc->set_initial(true); ivl_statement_t stmt = ivl_process_stmt(proc); int rc = draw_stmt(vhdl_proc, vhdl_proc->get_container(), stmt); if (rc != 0) return rc; // Initial processes are translated to VHDL processes with // no sensitivity list and and indefinite wait statement at // the end // However, if no statements were added to the container // by draw_stmt, don't bother adding a wait as `emit' // will optimise the process out of the output if (ivl_process_type(proc) == IVL_PR_INITIAL && !vhdl_proc->get_container()->empty()) { vhdl_wait_stmt *wait = new vhdl_wait_stmt(); vhdl_proc->get_container()->add_stmt(wait); } // Add a comment indicating where it came from ivl_scope_t scope = ivl_process_scope(proc); const char *type = ivl_process_type(proc) == IVL_PR_INITIAL ? "initial" : "always"; std::ostringstream ss; ss << "Generated from " << type << " process in "; ss << ivl_scope_tname(scope); vhdl_proc->set_comment(ss.str()); // Output any remaning blocking assignments draw_blocking_assigns(vhdl_proc); return 0; } int draw_process(ivl_process_t proc, void *cd) { ivl_scope_t scope = ivl_process_scope(proc); const char *scope_name = ivl_scope_name(scope); // A process should occur in a module scope, therefore it // should have already been assigned a VHDL entity assert(ivl_scope_type(scope) == IVL_SCT_MODULE); vhdl_entity *ent = find_entity(ivl_scope_tname(scope)); assert(ent != NULL); // If the scope this process belongs to is the same as the // VHDL entity was generated from, then create a VHDL process // from this Verilog process. This ensures that each process // is translated at most once, no matter how many times it // appears in the hierarchy. if (ent->get_derived_from() == scope_name) return generate_vhdl_process(ent, proc); else return 0; }