Extended Hardware functions like mux, decoders, adders

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Requirement Summary

• Simplify Creation of RTL macros (Also interested: MartinThompson, DanielKho):
• Library of standard functions
  • Mux2, what else?
    • To what use, Jim says behavior, David K. suggests mixed level of abstraction, retargetting
• Syntax based flip-flop extensions are here: ClockedShorthand

See also: Dec 15, 2011 and Mar 31, 2011

Proposal

Recommend that we forward this to the open source package working group for implementation separate of the VHDL standard.

Create hardware with procedure and function calls. For example, use a procedure for a flip-flop:

Reg(Clk, D, Q) ;

RegPipe (Clk, D, Q, 5) ; -- adds a 5 deep pipelining / shift register.

Rationale

Related and/or Competing Issues: None

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General Comments

The open source and vendor independet IP core library PoC comes with several syntheziable functions.
Examples for one-liners:

• a D-FF in standard VHDL
  mySignal_reg <= mySignal when rising_edge(Clock);
• a D-FF with enable and reset, as well as a reset value (INIT)
  mySignal_reg <= ffdre(q => mySignal_reg, d => mySignal, en => enable, rst => reset, INIT => '1') when rising_edge(Clock);
• an optional output register
  output <= output_i when registered(Clock, IS_REGISTERED);
• Encoding conversion
  gray <= bin2gray(Counter);
  onehot <= bin2onehot(Counter);

Source: PoC.components and PoC.utils

-- PatrickLehmann - 2016-02-

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-- MartinThompson - 2013-02-22

-- PatrickLehmann - 2016-02-19