Title
Verilog Loop Unrolling, Module Generation, Part-Select and Arithmetic Right Shift Support in Odin II.
Abstract
Verilog is a hardware description language (HDL) that supports the specification of hardware circuitry and control logic for production, simulation and testing. The subset of the specification used for production is called synthesizable. Verilog-to-Routing (VTR) is a Computer-Aided Design (CAD) flow. It transforms synthesizable Verilog into a placed and routed configuration for a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) architecture specified in XML. The front end of the VTR CAD flow is Odin II. Odin II parses Verilog files and uses them to create a netlist consisting of inputs, outputs, nodes, and connections. Odin II is an open-source research project, and full Verilog language coverage is a work in progress. This work extends Odin II's Verilog support to files containing the arithmetic right shift operator (>>>) and both the + : and - : part-select operators. It also adds support for simple for loops, while loops and loop-based module generation. Dynamic looping constructs are not synthesizable, so all looping constructs are processed before the netlist is generated. This paper will present the missing language features that were implemented, the scope of their implementation, the architecture of the solution, testing and finally the efficiency of the contributions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1145/3339985.3358497
RSP
Field
DocType
ISBN
Computer science,Right shift,Arithmetic,Verilog,Loop unrolling
Conference
978-1-4503-6847-6
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Scott Young100.68
Alexandrea Demmings200.34
Nasrin Eshraghi Ivari300.34
Jean-Philippe Legault4131.89
Kenneth B. Kent545854.42