(parameters in systemverilog packages can't actually be overridden, so
allowing parameters in addition to localparams doesn't actually add any
new functionality, but it's useful to be able to use the parameter
keyword also)
- information also useful for strongly-typed enums (not implemented)
- resolves enum values in ilang part of #1594
- still need to output enums to VCD (or better yet FST) files
Before this commit, every initial assignment to a memory generated
two wires and four assigns in a process. For unknown reasons (I did
not investigate), large amounts of assigns cause quadratic slowdown
later in the AST frontend, in processAst/removeSignalFromCaseTree.
As a consequence, common and reasonable Verilog code, such as:
reg [`WIDTH:0] mem [0:`DEPTH];
integer i; initial for (i = 0; i <= `DEPTH; i++) mem[i] = 0;
took extremely long time to be processed; around 80 s for a 8-wide,
8192-deep memory.
After this commit, initial assignments where address and/or data are
constant (after `generate`) do not incur the cost of intermediate
wires; expressions like `mem[i+1]=i^(i<<1)` are considered constant.
This results in speedups of orders of magnitude for common memory
sizes; it now takes merely 0.4 s to process a 8-wide, 8192-deep
memory, and only 5.8 s to process a 8-wide, 131072-deep one.
As a bonus, this change also results in nontrivial speedups later
in the synthesis pipeline, since pass sequencing issues meant that
all of these intermediate wires were subject to transformations such
as width reduction, even though they existed solely to be constant
folded away in `memory_collect`.
The if(str == node->str) is in fact necessary (otherwise causes generate
for in Multiplier_2D in tests/simple/multiplier.v to fail with error
message "Right hand side of 3rd expression of generate for-loop is not
constant!"). Note: in PeterCrozier's implementation, the break only
breaks out of the switch-case, not the outer for loop.
I tried to keep only the enum-related changes, and minimize the diff. (The
original commit also had a lot of work done to get typedefs working, but yosys
has diverged quite a bit since the 2018-03-09 commit, with a new typedef
implementation.) I did not include the import related changes either.
Original commit:
"Initial implementation of enum, typedef, import. Still a WIP."
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Claire Wolf
whitequark
Jeff Wang
Eddie Hung
Claire Wolf
Alberto Gonzalez
Peter Crozier
huaixv
Rodrigo Alejandro Melo
Rodrigo Alejandro Melo
David Shah