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ClockDivider2: fix launch alignment of clocks (vcs)

Doing this in Chisel leads to non-determinism due to shitty
Verilog ordering semantis. Using an '=' ensures that all of
the clock posedges fire before concurrent register updates.

See "Gotcha 29: Sequential logic that requires blocking assignments"
in "Verilog and SystemVerilog Gotchas" by Stuart Sutherland, Don Mills.
This commit is contained in:
Wesley W. Terpstra
2017-02-17 11:49:35 +01:00
parent 924afebbd9
commit 91d1880dbf
3 changed files with 28 additions and 9 deletions

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@ -5,15 +5,11 @@ package util
import Chisel._
/** Divide the clock by 2 */
class ClockDivider2 extends Module {
class ClockDivider2 extends BlackBox {
val io = new Bundle {
val clock_out = Clock(OUTPUT)
val clk_out = Clock(OUTPUT)
val clk_in = Clock(INPUT)
}
val clock_reg = Reg(Bool())
clock_reg := !clock_reg
io.clock_out := clock_reg.asClock
}
/** Divide the clock by power of 2 times.
@ -30,9 +26,10 @@ class Pow2ClockDivider(pow2: Int) extends Module {
val dividers = Seq.fill(pow2) { Module(new ClockDivider2) }
dividers.init.zip(dividers.tail).map { case (last, next) =>
next.clock := last.io.clock_out
next.io.clk_in := last.io.clk_out
}
io.clock_out := dividers.last.io.clock_out
dividers.head.io.clk_in := clock
io.clock_out := dividers.last.io.clk_out
}
}