iverilog/tgt-vvp
Stephen Williams 8247d3ef45 The .alias for nets is no longer useful.
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.
2009-10-14 21:40:15 -07:00
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Makefile.in Update mkinstalldirs to handle paths with spaces. 2009-02-04 08:44:22 -08:00
README.txt tgt-vvp generates code that skips nets as inputs. 2001-08-10 00:40:45 +00:00
draw_mux.c Assert number is not unknown for many cases in tgt-vvp. 2009-08-27 13:38:55 -07:00
draw_net_input.c Add appropriate hysteresis to tranif input pins. 2009-10-13 19:01:02 -07:00
draw_switch.c Make control inputs to islands use .import records. 2009-10-11 16:51:06 -07:00
draw_ufunc.c Content-free portability fixes. 2008-09-29 18:06:47 -07:00
draw_vpi.c Add support for signed thread base index for &A<> 2009-09-22 17:20:31 -07:00
eval_bool.c Add support for 64 bit delays in procedural non-blocking assignments. 2009-02-17 10:32:11 -08:00
eval_expr.c Add file/line information to named events and better expr. error. 2009-09-08 15:58:24 -07:00
eval_real.c For real expressions evaluate non-real sub-exprs as bits and convert. 2009-06-19 21:58:13 -07:00
modpath.c Content-free portability fixes. 2008-09-29 18:06:47 -07:00
vector.c Remove most of the lingering CVS droppings. 2008-12-05 21:48:28 -08:00
vvp-s.conf.in Remove redundant back-end selections. 2008-09-07 16:43:54 -07:00
vvp.c Some compiler cleanup and minor memory leak fixes. 2009-06-19 21:42:07 -07:00
vvp.conf.in Remove redundant back-end selections. 2008-09-07 16:43:54 -07:00
vvp_config.h.in Remove most of the lingering CVS droppings. 2008-12-05 21:48:28 -08:00
vvp_priv.h Make control inputs to islands use .import records. 2009-10-11 16:51:06 -07:00
vvp_process.c Optimize a full L-value indexed part select, etc. 2009-09-22 17:23:26 -07:00
vvp_scope.c The .alias for nets is no longer useful. 2009-10-14 21:40:15 -07:00

README.txt

THE VVP TARGET

SYMBOL NAME CONVENTIONS

There are some naming conventions that the vp target uses for
generating symbol names.

* wires and regs

Nets and variables are named V_<full-name> where <full-name> is the
full hierarchical name of the signal.

* Logic devices

Logic devices (and, or, buf, bufz, etc.) are named L_<full_name>. In
this case the symbol is attached to a functor that is the output of
the logic device.


GENERAL FUNCTOR WEB STRUCTURE

The net of gates, signals and resolvers is formed from the input
design. The basic structure is wrapped around the nexus, which is
represented by the ivl_nexus_t.

Each nexus represents a resolved value. The input of the nexus is fed
by a single driver. If the nexus in the design has multiple drivers,
the drivers are first fed into a resolver (or a tree of resolvers) to
form a single output that is the nexus.

The nexus, then, feeds its output to the inputs of other gates, or to
the .net objects in the design.