There's a mismatch between what `kernel/mem.cc` emits for memories
with no read ports and what the internal RTLIL check expects.
The point of dispute it whether some of the parameters relating to read
ports have a zero-width value in this case. The `mem.cc` code says no,
the internal checker says yes.
Surveying the other `$mem_v2` parameters, and internal cell parameters
in general, I am inclined to side with the `mem.cc` code.
This breaks RTLIL compatibility but for an obscure edge case.
This is already supported by `SigSpec` and since both `SigChunk` and
`SigSpec` implement `extract` which is the multi-bit variant of this,
there is no good reason for `SigChunk` to not support
`SigBit operator[](int offset)`.
Only the `B` input (the shift amount) can be marked as signed on a
`$shiftx` cell. Adapt the helper accordingly and prevent it from
creating invalid RTLIL when called with `is_signed` set. Previously
it would mark both `A` and `B` as signed.
Previously `extract` on a `SigSpec` would always unpack it. Since a
significant amount of `SigSpec`s have one or few chunks, it's worth
having a dedicated implementation.
This is especially true, since the RTLIL frontend calls into this for
every `wire [lhs:rhs]` slice, making this `extract` take up 40% when
profiling `read_rtlil` with one of the largest coarse grained RTLIL
designs I had on hand.
With this change the `read_rtlil` profile looks like I would expect it
to look like, but I noticed that a lot of the other core RTLIL methods
also are a bit too eager with unpacking or implementing
`SigChunk`/`Const` overloads that just convert to a single chunk
`SigSpec` and forward to the implementation for that, when a direct
implementation would avoid temporary std::vector allocations. While not
relevant for `read_rtlil`, to me it looks like there might be a few easy
overall performance gains to be had by addressing this more generally.
This PR speeds up by roughly 17% across a wide spectrum of designs
tested at Google. Particularly for the mux generation pass.
Co-authored-by: Rasmus Larsen <rmlarsen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ethan Mahintorabi <ethanmoon@google.com>
This does not correctly handle an `$overwrite_tag` on a module output,
but since we currently require the user to flatten the design for
cross-module dft, this cannot be observed from within the design, only
by manually inspecting the signals in the design.
The guard is optimised out on some compilers under certain conditions (eg: LTO on GCC) as constant under C++ lifetime rules.
This is because the guard type's member is invalid to access (UB) after the type has been destroyed, resulting in
`destruct_guard.ok` being unable to be `false` according to the optimiser, based on the lifetime rules.
This patch still invokes UB (all accesses to the destroyed IdString instance are), but at least the optimiser
can't reason that destruct_guard_ok cannot be false and therefore it's safe to optimise out from its guard role.
The new bitwise case equality (`$bweqx`) and bitwise mux (`$bwmux`)
cells enable compact encoding and decoding of 3-valued logic signals
using multiple 2-valued signals.
These can be used to protect undefined flip-flop initialization values
from optimizations that are not sound for formal verification and can
help mapping all solver-provided values in witness traces for flows that
use different backends simultaneously.
- Attempt to lookup a derived module if it potentially contains a port
connection with elaboration ambiguities
- Mark the cell if module has not yet been derived
- This can be extended to implement automatic hierarchical port
connections in a future change
This code now takes the AST nodes of type AST_BIND and generates a
representation in the RTLIL for them.
This is a little tricky, because a binding of the form:
bind baz foo_t foo_i (.arg (1 + bar));
means "make an instance of foo_t called foo_i, instantiate it inside
baz and connect the port arg to the result of the expression 1+bar".
Of course, 1+bar needs a cell for the addition. Where should that cell
live?
With this patch, the Binding structure that represents the construct
is itself an AST::AstModule module. This lets us put the adder cell
inside it. We'll pull the contents out and plonk them into 'baz' when
we actually do the binding operation as part of the hierarchy pass.
Of course, we don't want RTLIL::Binding to contain an
AST::AstModule (since kernel code shouldn't depend on a frontend), so
we define RTLIL::Binding as an abstract base class and put the
AST-specific code into an AST::Binding subclass. This is analogous to
the AST::AstModule class.
Martin Povišer
Emil J. Tywoniak
Philippe Sauter
Claire Xenia Wolf
N. Engelhardt
Roland Coeurjoly
Jannis Harder
Catherine
Rasmus Munk Larsen
Ethan Mahintorabi
Miodrag Milanovic
Charlotte
dragonmux
Marcelina Kościelnicka
Henner Zeller
NotAFile
Lofty
Zachary Snow
Rupert Swarbrick