Re: Beginner Question: Loop Unrolling & Use of Tuple Elements

Hello,

Things are well! Not sure if you'll be back at ESC-SV, but if so will buy
you a beer or three for the helpful response there ;-)

Those answers solve my problems, so am back on track. Am planning on having
a small write-up for Circuit Cellar on MyHDL, just replicating the simple
FIR demo I did before. Of course the MyHDL version is nicer since it can use
scipy to generate the coefficients and compare results...

Warm Regards,

  -Colin O'Flynn

-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Felton [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: June-28-15 4:32 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [myhdl-list] Beginner Question: Loop Unrolling & Use of Tuple
Elements

Hey Collin, how are things going?

On 6/28/15 12:59 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was attempting to make a simple FIR filter to compare MyHDL to 
> previous work I'd done using Vivado C-based HLS. I'm basing this 
> entirely on Christopher Felton's IIR example from 
> https://bitbucket.org/cfelton/examples/src/tip/siir/siir.py .
>
> Two things have tripped me up, and I'm not sure if it's some 
> limitation of MyHDL or my own failures? The first is as part of the 
> FIR I'd like to have a line like this:
>
> @always(clk.posedge)
> def rtl_fir():
>     for i in range(0, len(B-1)):
>        ffd[i+1].next = ffd[i]
>        ffd[i].next = x
>
> But I can't seem to find references to loop unrolling anywhere? There 
> was a few threads from ~2008 was all I saw. Instead I end up having to 
> do something like this:

The MyHDL converter will not un-roll the loops (currently).  The loops will
be converted as loops to the target HDL - where they will be un-rolled by
the synthesizer.

This post:
http://www.fpgarelated.com/showarticle/631.php

shows a "naive" (non-target-optimized) FIR implementation using loops.

<snip>
> The second problem is for the accumulator (which again I'm manually 
> unrolling), the most straight-forward definition to me would look like
this:
>
> @always_comb
>      def rtl_acc():
>          # Double precision accumulator
>          yacc.next = B[0]*ffd[0] + B[1]*ffd[1] + B[2]*ffd[2] + 
> B[3]*ffd[3] + B[4]*ffd[4]

I think the above link will help here as well, when you create a tuple of
ints, it is converted as a ROM [1], what you need to do is:

     def rtl_acc():
         for ii in range(4):
             btmp = B[ii]
             yacc.next = btmp + fdd[ii]


Hope that helps,
Chris

[1]
http://docs.myhdl.org/en/latest/manual/conversion_examples.html#rom-inferenc
e


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