verilog backend: preserve `signed` on wire and port declarations

`dump_wire` had no code path that emits the `signed` keyword for
wires/ports whose RTLIL `is_signed` flag is set.  Reading

  module top(input signed [9:0] in, output signed [31:0] o);
    assign o = in;
  endmodule

and writing it back via `write_verilog` produced

  input  [9:0]  in;
  output [31:0] o;

losing the declared signedness even though `wire->is_signed` was
tracked correctly in RTLIL throughout the round trip.  The IEEE
1364-2001 grammar (Annex A.2.1.2 / A.2.1.3) allows `signed` after the
direction / net-type keyword, which is the dialect `write_verilog`
targets by default — so the fix is to emit ` signed` between the
direction/net-type and the range when `wire->is_signed`.

Closes the half of chipsalliance/synlig#2425 that lives in Yosys: the
SystemVerilog frontend correctly produces a signed wire for `output int`,
but the Verilog backend dropped it on write.

Adds `tests/various/write_verilog_signed_port.ys`, which round-trips a
module with `signed` inputs, outputs, and an internal wire and greps
for the keyword on each declaration — fails without the fix, passes
with it.
This commit is contained in:
Alain Dargelas 2026-05-12 18:49:55 -07:00
parent 2046a23a2f
commit 13ab5d4a67
2 changed files with 43 additions and 5 deletions

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@ -456,21 +456,26 @@ void dump_wire(std::ostream &f, std::string indent, RTLIL::Wire *wire)
if (wire->attributes.count(ID::single_bit_vector))
range = stringf(" [%d:%d]", wire->start_offset, wire->start_offset);
}
// Emit `signed` for wires/ports whose RTLIL is_signed flag is set.
// Without this, an `output signed [N:0] o` was silently demoted to plain
// `output [N:0] o` on write, losing the declared signedness in a
// read_verilog -> write_verilog round-trip.
const char *signed_kw = wire->is_signed ? " signed" : "";
if (wire->port_input && !wire->port_output)
f << stringf("%s" "input%s %s;\n", indent, range, id(wire->name));
f << stringf("%s" "input%s%s %s;\n", indent, signed_kw, range, id(wire->name));
if (!wire->port_input && wire->port_output)
f << stringf("%s" "output%s %s;\n", indent, range, id(wire->name));
f << stringf("%s" "output%s%s %s;\n", indent, signed_kw, range, id(wire->name));
if (wire->port_input && wire->port_output)
f << stringf("%s" "inout%s %s;\n", indent, range, id(wire->name));
f << stringf("%s" "inout%s%s %s;\n", indent, signed_kw, range, id(wire->name));
if (reg_wires.count(wire->name)) {
f << stringf("%s" "reg%s %s", indent, range, id(wire->name));
f << stringf("%s" "reg%s%s %s", indent, signed_kw, range, id(wire->name));
if (wire->attributes.count(ID::init)) {
f << stringf(" = ");
dump_const(f, wire->attributes.at(ID::init));
}
f << stringf(";\n");
} else
f << stringf("%s" "wire%s %s;\n", indent, range, id(wire->name));
f << stringf("%s" "wire%s%s %s;\n", indent, signed_kw, range, id(wire->name));
#endif
}

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@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
# Roundtrip a module with `signed` ports / wires through read_verilog
# and write_verilog and verify the `signed` keyword survives. Before
# the fix, write_verilog silently dropped `signed` on every wire / port
# declaration, even though wire->is_signed was tracked correctly
# through the RTLIL. The IEEE 1364-2001 grammar (Annex A.2.1.2 /
# A.2.1.3) allows `signed` after the direction / net-type, which is
# the dialect write_verilog targets by default.
! mkdir -p temp
read_verilog <<EOT
module top(
input signed [9:0] in,
input signed s_in,
output signed [31:0] o,
output signed s_o
);
wire signed [15:0] w;
assign w = in;
assign o = w;
assign s_o = s_in;
endmodule
EOT
write_verilog -noattr temp/write_verilog_signed_port.v
# Each `signed` declaration must round-trip exactly. Use a non-greedy
# grep on the relevant slices (input / output / wire) so any drift
# in the surrounding formatting doesn't mask the bug.
! grep -E '^\s*input *signed *\[9:0\] +in;' temp/write_verilog_signed_port.v
! grep -E '^\s*input *signed +s_in;' temp/write_verilog_signed_port.v
! grep -E '^\s*output *signed *\[31:0\] +o;' temp/write_verilog_signed_port.v
! grep -E '^\s*output *signed +s_o;' temp/write_verilog_signed_port.v
! grep -E '^\s*wire *signed *\[15:0\] +w;' temp/write_verilog_signed_port.v