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.
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.
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.
* coreplex collapse: peripherals now in coreplex
* coreplex: better factoring of TLBusWrapper attachement points
* diplomacy: allow monitorless :*= and :=*
* rocket: don't connect monitors to tile tim slave ports
* rename chip package to system
* coreplex: only sbus has a splitter
* TLFragmenter: Continuing my spot battles on requires without explanatory strings
* pbus: toFixedWidthSingleBeatSlave
* tilelink: more verbose requires
* use the new system package for regression
* sbus: add more explicit FIFO attachment points
* delete leftover top-level utils
* cleanup ResetVector and RTC
This makes it possible for the bundles to have different widths.
Previously, we had to widen all the bundles passing through a node
to the widest of all the possibilities. This would mean that if
you had two source[] fields, they end up the same.
Henry Cook
Wesley W. Terpstra
Megan Wachs
Jacob Chang
Jacob Chang