From 12beda6e5b1de4a3801098f14b819e91eb63e0f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: whitequark Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2020 09:01:57 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] back.verilog: omit Verilog initial trigger only if Yosys adds it. Verilog has an edge case where an `always @*` process, which is used to describe a combinatorial function procedurally, may not execute at time zero because none of the signals in its implicit sensitivity list change, i.e. when the process doesn't read any signals. This causes the wires driven by the process to stay undefined. The workaround to this problem (assuming SystemVerilog `always_comb` is not available) is to introduce a dummy signal that changes only at time zero and is optimized out during synthesis. nMigen has had its own workaround, `$verilog_initial_trigger`, for a while. However, `proc_prune`, while increasing readability, pulls references to this signal out of the process. Because of this, a similar workaround was implemented in Yosys' `write_verilog` itself. This commit ensures we use our workaround on versions of Yosys without the updated `write_verilog`, and Yosys' workaround on later versions. Fixes #418. --- nmigen/back/verilog.py | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/nmigen/back/verilog.py b/nmigen/back/verilog.py index 31db02b..9f813d0 100644 --- a/nmigen/back/verilog.py +++ b/nmigen/back/verilog.py @@ -13,8 +13,9 @@ def _convert_rtlil_text(rtlil_text, *, strip_internal_attrs=False, write_verilog script = [] script.append("read_ilang <= (0, 9, 231): - # Yosys 0.9 release has buggy proc_prune. + if yosys_version >= (0, 9, 3468): + # Yosys >=0.9+3468 (since commit f3d7e9a1) emits Verilog without a possible sim/synth + # mismatch, making $verilog_initial_trigger unnecessary. script.append("delete w:$verilog_initial_trigger") script.append("proc_prune") script.append("proc_init") -- 2.30.2