Strategically inserting the pending memory write in memory::update to keep the
queue sorted allows us to skip the queue sort in memory::commit.
The Minerva SRAM SoC runs ~7% faster as a result.
This is quite possibly the worst way to implement this, but it does
work for a subset of well-behaved designs, and can be used to measure
how much performance is lost simulating the inactive edge of a clock.
It should be replaced with a clock tree analyzer generating safe
code once it is clear how should such a thing look like.
If the annotations are not used, this commit does not alter semantics
at all, other than removing elision of outputs of black box cells.
(Elision of such outputs is expected to be too rare to have any
noticeable benefit, and the implementation was somewhat of a hack.)
The (* cxxrtl.comb *) annotation alters the semantics of the output
of the black box it is applied to such that, if the black box
converges immediately, no additional delta cycle is necessary to
propagate the computed combinatorial value upwards in hierarchy.
The (* cxxrtl.sync *) annotation alters the semantics of the output
of the black box it is applied to such as to remove any uses of
the black box by the wires connected to this output, and break false
feedback arcs arising from conservative modeling of dependencies of
the black box.
Although currently these attributes are only recognized on black
boxes, if separate compilation is added in the future, it could also
emit and consume them.
The attribute for this is called (* cxxrtl.edge *), and there is
a planned attribute (* cxxrtl.sync *) that would cause blackbox
cell outputs to be added to sync defs rather than comb defs.
Rename the edge detector related stuff to avoid confusion.
Fixes#1823.
This will allow nextpnr to reuse the default value information already
present in yosys cells_sim.v and avoid duplicating (and probably
desyncing) this information.
If it is statically known that eval() will converge in one delta
cycle (that is, the second commit() will always return `false`)
because the design contains no feedback or buffered wires, then
there is no need to run the second delta cycle at all.
After this commit, the case where eval() always converges immediately
is detected and the second delta cycle is omitted. As a result,
Minerva SRAM SoC runs ~25% faster.
Eddie Hung
Claire Wolf
Dan Ravensloft
Alberto Gonzalez
whitequark
Asu
Claire Wolf
Marcelina Kościelnicka