[libre-riscv-dev] Possible nMigen Milestone?

[Immanuel, Yehowshua U]

> what's been done, what's left, and how long will it take to completion
> for stable production use?

Steps one through 5 work. Tick() and Settle() in 6 work.

**Remaining Tasks:**

7. Support for multiple synchronous domains in waveform generation
8. Timekeeping for writing waveforms
9. Plugging Pysim into verilator backend for to evaluate expressions inside yield - fairly low priority

I’ve been communicating with Whitequark and I think Verilator backend would be upstream and production ready by the beginning of March if not earlier.

I should also add that whitequark is adding a C++ yoys(CXXSim) based backend that has been shown to be reasonably fast in its own right.
I thought the verilator backend might solve the problem with needing to convert verilog to nMigen - but I now know that is not the case.

So the only advantage I see the verilator backend bringing to the table is its multithreaded capabilities which might come in handy with later arithmetic intense simulations.


> 1) squeeze this in to an existing project.  we can potentially get
> away with this if the (remaining) work needed is small and *clearly*
> fits *directly* into it.
> 2) put in a new funding application.

I conclude that the verilator backend is not directly necessary for the project goals. This is fine, there are some other tasks that need attention.