* Make dts generation reusable across tile subclasses
* First attempt to standardize tile IO nodes and connect methods
* hartid => hartId when talking about scala Ints
The reason for the :=? operator was for when you have an adapter chain
whose direction of cardinality you could not know. We used explicit
directives to tell these compositions which way to go.
Unfortunately, that makes the API leaky. You think the chain of adapters
is just one adapter, but you have to use strange Cardinality scopes to
use it. That's just bad.
The new :*=* just automagically figures it out from the graph.
This removes the mostly obsolete 'numIn/Out' range restrictions on nodes.
It also makes it possible to connect optional crossbars that disappear.
val x = TLXbar()
x := master
slave := x
val y = TLXbar()
x :=* y // only connect y if it gets used
This will create crossbar x, but crossbar y will disappear.
Putting the common DTS nodes into a shared object makes them get
emitted only one time. Plus it's better style.
timebase-frequency should really have been in the cpu nodes in the
first place according to the spec anyway. I was foolishly trying to
save bytes. However, now we really want it there in case it differs.
This makes it possible to treat chained composition associatively.
x := y :=? z :=* a ...
It also makes it easy to chain multiple optional adapters:
node :=? (Seq(a, b) ++ c ++ d)
FlipRendering { implicit p => ... } now changes the render direction of edges.
diplomatic NodeImps can specify a default render flip using the new 'render' method.
If two (or more) 'auto_' things have the same name, append _0 and _1 to them.
The order of definitions is unaffected; ie:
a => a_0
b => b_0
b => b_1
c => c
a => a_1
We used to place Monitors at the point of the ':='.
This was problematic because the clock domain might be wrong.
Thus, we needed to shove Monitors a lot.
Furthermore, now that we have cross-module ':=', you might not even
have access to the wires at the point where ':=' is invoked.
Wesley W. Terpstra
Henry Cook
Richard Xia
Wei Song (宋威)