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Log message |
Author |
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| 35 |
TB now handles newer Verilator versions
I also placed verilator -Wall into the verilator Makefile,
turned on the -trace capability (tho nothing uses it), and
placed `default_nettype none into all of the created
Verilog files. |
dgisselq |
2551d 02h |
/dblclockfft/trunk/bench/cpp/Makefile |
| 32 |
Fixed the makefile dependency on the static VERILATOR_ROOT. |
dgisselq |
2959d 17h |
/dblclockfft/trunk/bench/cpp/Makefile |
| 30 |
Minor documentation edits. |
dgisselq |
3274d 15h |
/dblclockfft/trunk/bench/cpp/Makefile |
| 29 |
Checking in a lot of changes here. These changes were focused on two
things primarily: 1st the ability to match, in bench testing, the bench
test to the configuration of the generated FFT. For this purpose, the
fftgen program now creates fftsize.h and ifftsize.h header files. These
header files contain the parameters that were used in the creation of the
various verilog files, and therefore the C++ test benches may now be compiled
to match the test files. The 2nd change is the multiply. Based upon a
set of slides from Xilinx, I rebuilt my shiftaddmpy into a longbimpy.
(Think if 'bimpy' as a 'bi', or two-bit, 'mpy', or multiply.) Longbimpy
depends upon bimpy, an optimized 2xN bit multiply--optimized for 6-bit
LUTs with carry chains. Longbimpy simply expands that capability to a
NxN bit multiply. Sadly, the longbimpy approach increased my area on the
chip when it was supposed to be a cheaper multiply, so I may well take it
back out in the future. |
dgisselq |
3431d 00h |
/dblclockfft/trunk/bench/cpp/Makefile |
| 23 |
Lot's of work to implement a variable means of rounding. The variable
rounding is now implemented within the code, all that's left is to
place a command line option to the generator to choose how values
are to be rounded: either by truncation (drop the lower bits), by
always rounding half up (if the first extra bit is one, go up),
by rounding away from zero (if exactly .5, move away from zero), or
by rounding towards even (if exactly .5, move towards the nearest
even value).
This added an extra clock cycle to each stage, so all of the
test benches needed to be reworked. There is currently no testbench
to test the rounding method itself. This necessitated some
wholescale changes to the testbench code, and the addition
of the twoc.[h|cpp] files. (They were within every piece of code, just
copied from one to the next, this now encapsulates them within their
own file so fixes will propagate to all.) Other changes include creating
testbench classes, adjusting the classes so that one can test what will
happen if the sync isn't added initially, and more. In the end, my
problem was tied to an assumption within fftmain.v that dblstage would
always be a one tick delay, whereas with the one tick of the rounding
function it now becomes a two tick delay .... but the task is done, and
the FFT appears to work again. The maximum sum of square errors (XISQ)
is about half what it was before now, when I use convergent rounding. |
dgisselq |
3542d 16h |
/dblclockfft/trunk/bench/cpp/Makefile |
| 22 |
Lot's of changes, mostly around getting this multiply to fit within a
particular FPGA. Specifically, we just added the capability of using
hardware multiplies to the command line options. Use them if you have
them, and it will simplify the operation of the FFT. |
dgisselq |
3543d 18h |
/dblclockfft/trunk/bench/cpp/Makefile |
| 16 |
Cleaned up the test bench build scripts, made sure license statements were
placed on all files, etc. |
dgisselq |
3548d 16h |
/dblclockfft/trunk/bench/cpp/Makefile |
| 14 |
Found several bugs in the previous version. The biggest were in the qtrstage.
Apparently, the qtrstage didn't work before, even though I thought it did.
Further, the FFT testbench has been adjusted to place proper values into
the fft_tb.dbl file it creates. (I've been testing it by reading this into
Octave, and visually inspecting the results--quantitative testing of the
fft_tb and ifft_tb are still lacking.) Now, however, if I cascade the
forward and reverse together, I seem to get something at least close to the
right answer. Close, of course, is relative. I think all that I still
struggle with is rounding and truncation errors, hence I'm checking in
my changes.
The FFT generator was also modified to allow arbitrary length paths
in the command line specified path prefix. This has not been tested.
A bug was also found in the butterfly, whereby for certain multiply delays
the butterfly would be unable to determine whether or not its results were
valid. Adding an extra bit to the FIFO address in these cases fixed the
problem. This change was encapsulated into the lgdelay() function, and
an additional bflydelay function. In my frustration, I modified the
fftstage function so that, when it is built, the parameters it is built
with are the default parameters. This should only affect testing, by
making any testing more realistic, but that may still remain to be seen.
Another change was made to the core generator, so that now when a core
is generated, the main file now contains a copy of the arguments that were
used when the core generator was invoked. This is good for posterity, in
case you ever need to ask yourself how I ended up here. |
dgisselq |
3550d 13h |
/dblclockfft/trunk/bench/cpp/Makefile |
| 9 |
Now working on the test bench for the FFT. Currently, the FFT passes
all test bench "tests." However, the test bench does not yet accurately
report on the success of its work. This remains for future work. Lots
of bugs fixed while making this test bench code work.
(I should mention, while all test benches currently pass, that doesn't
mean that the code works ... yet. I just haven't found the bug that
breaks it.) |
dgisselq |
3556d 18h |
/dblclockfft/trunk/bench/cpp/Makefile |
| 6 |
Lots of work accomplished today. Test benches now exist and work for the:
butterfly, multiply, bitreversal, pairwise FFT stage (dblstage), and the
four-wise FFT stage (qtrstage). Work continues on the single (generic)
FFT stage, and (of course) the FFT isn't ready yet. A second commit will
follow this one shortly with the new files added (oops!--I should've added
them this time--my bad.) |
dgisselq |
3557d 12h |
/dblclockfft/trunk/bench/cpp/Makefile |
| 5 |
The butterfly_tb is now written, and the butterfly succeeds at the test
bench! |
dgisselq |
3557d 20h |
/dblclockfft/trunk/bench/cpp/Makefile |
| 3 |
The first upload of the s/w didn't take. Had it taken, the comment would've
been: This is the first upload of the double clocked FFT software. While it
should (roughly) be complete, a lot of work remains to be done--primarily
in building test benches, modifying the interface of fftgen to make it
more friendly, etc. In fact, the c++ code not only compiles, but the
Verilog code it produces actually builds as well!
Now, however, I have several test benches written, and have verified the
unit functionality of the multiply, bit reversal stage, the dblstage (FFT
len 2), and the qtrstage (FFT len 4). I then took a closer look at the
multiply, discovered it failed at signed integers and rebuilt it. The
new test bench tests the full 16-bit signed integer support properly. This
leaves butterflies and generic FFT stages that still need test benches, as
does the main (I)FFT program. |
dgisselq |
3558d 01h |
/dblclockfft/trunk/bench/cpp/Makefile |
