give LCG an inc signal and add object constructors

groundtest/src/main/scala/TraceGen.scala

@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ class TraceGenerator(id: Int)
 
   // A random index into the address bag.
 
-  val randAddrBagIndex = Module(new LCG(logAddressBagLen)).io.out
+  val randAddrBagIndex = LCG(logAddressBagLen)
 
   // A random address from the address bag.
 
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ class TraceGenerator(id: Int)
         else {
           // A random index into the extra addresses.
 
-          val randExtraAddrIndex = Module(new LCG(logNumExtraAddrs)).io.out
+          val randExtraAddrIndex = LCG(logNumExtraAddrs)
 
           // A random address from the extra addresses.
 
@@ -299,7 +299,7 @@ class TraceGenerator(id: Int)
   val delayTimer = Module(new DynamicTimer(16))
 
   // Used to generate a random delay period
-  val randDelayBase = Module(new LCG16()).io.out
+  val randDelayBase = LCG16()
 
   // Random delay period: usually small, occasionally big
   val randDelay = Frequency(List(

groundtest/src/main/scala/common/Util.scala

@@ -71,11 +71,9 @@ class DynamicTimer(w: Int) extends Module {
   when (io.start) {
     countdown := io.period
     active := Bool(true)
-  }
-  .elsewhen (io.stop) {
+  } .elsewhen (io.stop || countdown === UInt(0)) {
     active := Bool(false)
-  }
-  .elsewhen (active) {
+  } .elsewhen (active) {
     countdown := countdown - UInt(1)
   }
 
@@ -95,9 +93,12 @@ class DynamicTimer(w: Int) extends Module {
 class LCG16 extends Module { 
   val io = new Bundle { 
     val out = UInt(OUTPUT, 16) 
+    val inc = Bool(INPUT)
   } 
   val state = Reg(UInt(width = 32))
+  when (io.inc) {
     state := state * UInt(1103515245, 32) + UInt(12345, 32)
+  }
   io.out := state(30, 15)
 } 
  
@@ -111,12 +112,28 @@ class LCG16 extends Module {
 class LCG(val w: Int) extends Module {
   val io = new Bundle { 
     val out = UInt(OUTPUT, w) 
+    val inc = Bool(INPUT)
   } 
   require(w > 0)
   val numLCG16s : Int = (w+15)/16
-  val outs = List.fill(numLCG16s)(Module(new LCG16()).io.out)
-  io.out := Cat( outs(0)((w%16)-1, 0)
-               , outs.drop(1) : _*)
+  val outs = Seq.fill(numLCG16s) { LCG16(io.inc) }
+  io.out := Cat(outs)
+}
+
+object LCG16 {
+  def apply(inc: Bool = Bool(true)): UInt = {
+    val lcg = Module(new LCG16)
+    lcg.io.inc := inc
+    lcg.io.out
+  }
+}
+
+object LCG {
+  def apply(w: Int, inc: Bool = Bool(true)): UInt = {
+    val lcg = Module(new LCG(w))
+    lcg.io.inc := inc
+    lcg.io.out
+  }
 }
 
 // ======================
@@ -145,7 +162,7 @@ object Frequency {
     result := UInt(0)
 
     // Random value
-    val randVal = Module(new LCG(log2Up(total))).io.out
+    val randVal = LCG(log2Up(total))
 
     // Pick return value
     var count = firstFreq