[libre-riscv-dev] buffered pipeline

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 10:07 PM Jacob Lifshay <programmerjake at gmail.com> wrote:
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> One thing I noticed in your implementation is that IOAckIn has all the
> inputs and IOAckOut has all the outputs.

 yes.  the naming "input" and "output" was incredibly confusing from
the src/pipeline.py code as they should be prev and nxt (next is a
keyword). or prev_stage and next_stage.

> I personally think IOAck is not an
> appropriate name since none of the signals are named ack anymore

 good point.  don't know what to suggest.  based it on the chisel3
library having the word "ack" in it.  any recommendations?

> Additionally, I would organize the signals into a group from/to the prev
> stage and a group from/to the next stage.

 yeah, then the linkage is much easier (connect, below).  the naming
prefixes which include all six pieces of information however i find
essential.  if swapping so that prev/next is the grouping, the
input/output definitely needs to also be preserved [as the inner,
second prefix].

so, i_valid and o_ready in PredControl, and o_valid and i_ready in
NextControl.  what will then happen i think is that in the connect
functions, the ins will be eq'd to the outs.

l.