Verilog 32i4r

Using Verilog® HDL

Anamika Singh

 History

of Verilog® HDL  Overview of Digital Design with Verilog® HDL  Hello World!  Hierarchical Modeling Concepts

 Beginning:  

1983

“Gateway Design Automation” company Simulation environment 

Comprising various levels of abstraction  Switch (transistors), gate, -transfer, and higher levels

 Three 

Programming Language Interface (PLI) 



Extend and customize simulation environment

Close attention to the needs of ASIC foundries 



factors to success of Verilog

“Gateway Design Automation” partnership with Motorola, National, and UTMC in 1987-89

Verilog-based synthesis technology 

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“Gateway Design Automation” licensed Verilog to Synopsys Synopsys introduced synthesis from Veri 1987

 VHDL      

VHSIC (Very High Speed Integrated Circuit) Hardware Description Language Developed under contract from DARPA IEEE standard Public domain Other EDA vendors adapted VHDL “Gateway” put Veri public domain

 Today 

Market divided between Verilog & VHDL  

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VHDL  

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VHDL mostly in Europe Verilog dominant in US More general language Not all constructs are synthesizable

Verilog:  

Not as general as VHDL Most constructs are synthesizable

Overview of Digital Design Using Verilog

 Evolution

of Computer-Aided Digital Design  Emergence of HDLs  Typical Design Flow  Importance of HDLs  Popularity of Verilog HDL  Trends in HDLs

 SSI: 

A few gates on a chip

 MSI: 

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 

Large scale integration

Thousands of gates on a chip CAD: Computer-Aided Design 

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Medium scale integration

Hundreds of gates on a chip

 LSI: 

Small scale integration

CAD vs. CAE

Logic and circuit simulators Prototyping on bread board Layout by hand (on paper or a computer terminal)

 VLSI:  

Hundred thousands of gates Not feasible anymore: 

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  

Bread boarding Manual layout design

Simulator programs Automatic place-and-route Bottom-Up design  



Very Large Scale Integration

Design small building blocks Combine them to develop bigger ones

More and more emphasis on logic simulation

 The

need to a standardized language for hardware description 

Verilog® and VHDL

 Simulators  

Usage: functional verification Path to implementation: manual translation into gates

 Logic  

emerged

synthesis technology

Late 1980s Dramatic change in digital design 

Design at -Transfer Level (RTL) using an HDL

1. 2. 3. 4.

5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.

Design specification Behavioral description RTL description Functional verification and testing Logic synthesis Gate-level netlist Logical verification and testing Floor planning, automatic place & route Physical layout Layout verification Implementation

 Most 

In 1996:  

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

design activity

Manually optimizing the RTL design CAD tools take care of generating lower-level details Reducing design time to months from years

Today  

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Still RTL is used in many cases But, synthesis from behavioral-level also possible Digital design now resembles high-level computer programming

 NOTE: 

CAD tools help, but the designer still has the main role 

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GIGO (Garbage-In Garbage-Out) concept To obtain an optimized design, the designer needs to know about the synthesis technology  Compare to software programming and compilation

 Retargeting

to a new fabrication technology  Functional verification earlier in the design cycle  Textual concise representation of the design  

Similar to computer programs Easier to understand

 Verilog     

 

HDL

General-purpose Easy to learn, easy to use Similar in syntax to C Allows different levels of abstraction and mixing them ed by most popular logic synthesis tools Post-logic-synthesis simulation libraries by all fabrication vendors PLI to customize Verilog simulators to designers’ needs

 Design

at behavioral level  Formal verification techniques  Very high speed and time critical circuits  

e.g. microprocessors Mixed gate-level and RTL designs

 Hardware-Software 

Co-design

System-level languages: SystemC, SpecC, …

Hello World!

Stimulus block

Generating inputs to CUD

Circuit Under Design (CUD) 8

Test bench

4

Checking outputs of CUD

 You’ll

see in the laboratory

 Module

module not_gate(in, out); // module name+ports // comments: declaring port type input in; output out; // Defining circuit functionality assign out = ~in; endmodule

module useless; initial $display(“Hello World!”); endmodule  Note 

the message-display statement

Compare to printf() in C

Hierarchical Modeling Concepts

module <module_name>(<module_terminal_list>); ... <module internals> ... endmodule  Example: module T_ff(q, clock, reset); ... ... endmodule

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Verilog ed levels of abstraction 

Behavioral (algorithmic) level  

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Dataflow level 

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Interconnect logic gates

Switch level 



Describe how data flows between s and is processed

Gate level 

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Describe the algorithm used Very similar to C programming

Interconnect transistors (MOS transistors)

-Transfer Level (RTL) 

Generally known as a combination of behavioral+dataflow that is synthesizable by EDA tools

module ripple_carry_counter(q, clk, reset); output [3:0] q; input clk, reset; //4 TFF TFF TFF TFF

instances of the module TFF are created. tff0(q[0],clk, reset); tff1(q[1],q[0], reset); tff2(q[2],q[1], reset); tff3(q[3],q[2], reset);

endmodule

module TFF(q, clk, reset); output q; input clk, reset; wire d; DFF dff0(q, d, clk, reset); not n1(d, q); // not is a Verilog provided primitive. endmodule

// module DFF with asynchronous reset module DFF(q, d, clk, reset); output q; input d, clk, reset; reg q; always @(posedge reset or negedge clk) if (reset) q = 1'b0; else q = d; endmodule

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Illegal instantiation example:  

Nested module definition not allowed Note the difference between module definition and module instantiation

// Define the top level module called ripple carry // counter. It is illegal to define the module T_FF inside // this module. module ripple_carry_counter(q, clk, reset); output [3:0] q; input clk, reset; module T_FF(q, clock, reset);// ILLEGAL MODULE NESTING : <module T_FF internals> : endmodule // END OF ILLEGAL MODULE NESTING endmodule

 Design 

block was shown before

ripple_carry_counter, T_FF, and D_FF modules

 Stimulus

block

module stimulus; reg clk; reg reset; wire[3:0] q; // instantiate the design block ripple_carry_counter r1(q, clk, reset); // Control the clk signal that drives the design block. initial clk = 1'b0; always #5 clk = ~clk; // Control the reset signal that drives the design block initial begin reset = 1'b1; #15 reset = 1'b0; #180 reset = 1'b1; #10 reset = 1'b0; #20 $stop; end initial // Monitor the outputs $monitor($time, " Output q = %d", endmodule

q);