'verif' Dialect

This dialect provides a collection of operations to express various verification concerns, such as assertions and interacting with a piece of hardware for the sake of verifying its proper functioning.

Operations ¶

verif.assert (circt::verif::AssertOp) ¶

Assert that a property holds.

Syntax:

operation ::= `verif.assert` $property (`label` $label^)? attr-dict `:` type($property)

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verif.assume (circt::verif::AssumeOp) ¶

Assume that a property holds.

Syntax:

operation ::= `verif.assume` $property (`label` $label^)? attr-dict `:` type($property)

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verif.cover (circt::verif::CoverOp) ¶

Ensure that a property can hold.

Syntax:

operation ::= `verif.cover` $property (`label` $label^)? attr-dict `:` type($property)

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verif.format_verilog_string (circt::verif::FormatVerilogStringOp) ¶

Creates a formatted string.

Syntax:

operation ::= `verif.format_verilog_string` $formatString `(` $substitutions `)` `:` type($substitutions) attr-dict

Creates a formatted string suitable for printing via the verif.print op. The formatting syntax is expected to be identical to verilog string formatting to keep things simple for emission. If we in the future would like to be less tied to verilog formatting, please ask your friendly neighbourhood compiler engineer to e.g. implement a FormatStringOp which itself may lower to a FormatVerilogStringOp.

Traits: AlwaysSpeculatableImplTrait

Interfaces: ConditionallySpeculatable, InferTypeOpInterface, NoMemoryEffect (MemoryEffectOpInterface)

Effects: MemoryEffects::Effect{}

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verif.has_been_reset (circt::verif::HasBeenResetOp) ¶

Check that a proper reset has been seen.

Syntax:

operation ::= `verif.has_been_reset` $clock `,` custom<KeywordBool>($async, "\"async\"", "\"sync\"")
              $reset attr-dict

The result of verif.has_been_reset reads as 0 immediately after simulation startup and after each power-cycle in a power-aware simulation. The result remains 0 before and during reset and only switches to 1 after the reset is deasserted again.

This is a useful utility to disable the evaluation of assertions and other verification constructs in the IR before the circuit being tested has been properly reset. Verification failures due to uninitialized or randomized initial state can thus be prevented.

Using the result of verif.has_been_reset to enable verification is more powerful and proper than just disabling verification during reset. The latter does not properly handle the period of time between simulation startup or power-cycling and the start of reset. verif.has_been_reset is guaranteed to produce a 0 value in that period, as well as during the reset.

Traits: AlwaysSpeculatableImplTrait

Interfaces: ConditionallySpeculatable, InferTypeOpInterface, NoMemoryEffect (MemoryEffectOpInterface)

Effects: MemoryEffects::Effect{}

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verif.lec (circt::verif::LogicEquivalenceCheckingOp) ¶

Represents a logical equivalence checking problem

Syntax:

operation ::= `verif.lec` attr-dict `first` $firstCircuit `second` $secondCircuit

This operation represents a logic equivalence checking problem explicitly in the IR. There are several possiblities to perform logical equivalence checking. For example, equivalence checking of combinational circuits can be done by constructing a miter circuit and testing whether the result is satisfiable (can be non-zero for some input), or two canonical BDDs could be constructed and compared for identity, etc.

The number and types of the inputs and outputs of the two circuits (and thus also the block arguments and yielded values of both regions) have to match. Otherwise, the two should be considered trivially non-equivalent.

Traits: IsolatedFromAbove, SingleBlockImplicitTerminator<verif::YieldOp>, SingleBlock

Interfaces: InferTypeOpInterface

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verif.print (circt::verif::PrintOp) ¶

Prints a message.

Syntax:

operation ::= `verif.print` $string attr-dict

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verif.yield (circt::verif::YieldOp) ¶

Yields values from a region

Syntax:

operation ::= `verif.yield` ($inputs^ `:` type($inputs))? attr-dict

Traits: HasParent<verif::LogicEquivalenceCheckingOp>, Terminator

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