The changes in each Verilator version are described below. The contributors that suggested a given feature are shown in []. Thanks!
Minor:
- Add predicted stack overflow warning (#4799).
- Add +verilator+coverage+file runtime option.
- Add --runtime-debug for Verilated executable runtime debugging.
- Add '--decorations node' for inserting debug comments into emitted code.
- Remove deprecated 32-bit pointer mode (gcc -m32).
- Change zero replication width error to ZEROREPL warning (#4753) (#4762). [Pengcheng Xu]
- Support dumping coverage with --main.
- Support vpiConstType in vpi_get_str() (#4797). [Marlon James]
- Support SystemC 3.0.0 public review version (#4805) (#4807). [Anthony Donlon]
- Support parsing anonymous primitive instantiations (#4809). [Anthony Donlon]
- Fix localparam elaboration (#3858) (#4794). [Andrew Nolte]
- Fix lint_off disables on preprocessor warnings (#4703). [Srinivasan Venkataramanan]
- Fix $time not rounding up (#4790) (#4792). [Paul Wright]
- Fix vpi_get() and vpi_get64() to return vpiUndefined on errors (#4795). [Marlon James]
- Fix VPI parameter iteration (#4798). [Marlon James]
- Fix delays using wrong timeunit when modules inlined (#4806). [Paul Wright]
- Fix warnings in verilated_sc_trace.h for Clang. (#4807) (#4827). [Anthony Donlon]
- Fix null pointer dereference (#4810) (#4825). [Adrian Sampson]
- Fix compilation error on multi-inherited interface class usage (#4819).
- Fix maybe-uninitialized compiler warning (#4820) (#4822). [Larry Doolittle]
- Fix mis-splitting of dump control functions (#4821). [Fan Shupei]
- Fix wrong utimes() parameter (#4829). [Szymon Gizler]
- Fix incorrect bit-op-tree NOT optimization (#4832) (#4847). [Yutetsu TAKATSUKASA]
- Fix width calculation in replaceShiftOp (#4837) (#4841) (#4849). [Yutetsu TAKATSUKASA]
- Fix tracing chandles (#4860). [Nathan Graybeal]
Major:
- Support compilation with precompiled headers with Make and GCC or CLang.
- Change include to systemc instead of systemc.h (#4622) (#4623). [Chih-Mao Chen] This may require that SystemC programs add 'using namespace sc_core', 'using namespace sc_dt'.
Minor:
- Add devcontainer support (#4748). [Stefan Wallentowitz]
- Support iff in sensitivity list (#1482) (#4626). [Krzysztof Bieganski, Antmicro Ltd.]
- Support parameterized virtual interfaces (#4047) (#4743). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd.]
- Support --timing triggers for virtual interfaces (#4673). [Krzysztof Bieganski, Antmicro Ltd.]
- Support ccache when compiling Verilator with CMake (#4678). [Anthony Donlon]
- Support passing constraints to --xml-only output (still otherwise unsupported) (#4683). [Shahid Ikram]
- Support node memory usage information in --stats (#4684). [Geza Lore]
- Support vpiConstType in vpi_get() (#4761). [Todd Strader]
- Support vpi_iterate on packages with vpiInstance (#4726). [Todd Strader]
- Support multiple parameters in virtual interfaces (#4745). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd.]
- Support user C/C++ code in final archive, and make a lib{model}.a (#4749) (#4754). [Fan Shupei]
- Support inside operator on unpacked arrays and queues (#4751). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd.]
- Support VPI parameter iteration (#4765). [Todd Strader]
- Support packages in vpi_handle_by_name() (#4768). [Todd Strader]
- Support invoking interface methods on virtual interface variables (#4774) (#4775). [Jordan McConnon]
- Remove deprecated options (#4663). [Geza Lore]
- Remove older compiler support; require C++14 or newer (#4784) (#4786).
- Optimize timing-delayed queue (#4584). [qrqiuren]
- Optimize substitute optimization memory usage (#4687). [Geza Lore]
- Optimize wide primitive operations with -Oz (#4733). [Geza Lore]
- Optimize V3Premit performance etc. (#4736). [Geza Lore]
- Fix VPI TOP level variable iteration (#3919) (#4618). [Marlon James]
- Fix display with no % printing assoc array (#4376). [Alex Solomatnikov]
- Fix scheduling of external force signals (#4577) (#4668). [Geza Lore]
- Fix a memory leak in V3Fork (#4628). [Krzysztof Boroński]
- Fix linking parameterized hierarchical blocks and recursive hierarchical blocks (#4654). [Anthony Donlon]
- Fix identifiers that end with '_' on Windows (#4655). [Anthony Donlon]
- Fix 'for' loop with outside variable reference (#4660). [David Harris]
- Fix tracing FST enums (#4661) (#4756). [Todd Strader]
- Fix interface parameters used in loop generate constructs (#4664) (#4665). [Anthony Donlon]
- Fix C++20 compilation errors (#4670).
- Fix deadlocks in error handler (#4672). [Mariusz Glebocki, Antmicro Ltd.]
- Fix MingW compilation (#4675). [David Ledger]
- Fix trace when using SystemC with certain configurations (#4676). [Anthony Donlon]
- Fix range access to classes depending on parameter resolution (#4681). [Krzysztof Boroński]
- Fix select into constant And/Or/Xor pattern (#4689). [Geza Lore]
- Fix access type of function arguments (#4692) (#4694). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd.]
- Fix dynamic NBAs with automatic vars (#4696). [Krzysztof Bieganski, Antmicro Ltd.]
- Fix # 0 delays for process resumption, etc. (#4697). [Krzysztof Boroński]
- Fix conflicted namespace for coroutines (#4701) (#4707). [Jinyan Xu]
- Fix compilers seeing empty input due to file system races (#4708). [Flavien Solt]
- Fix shift of > 32-bit number (#4719). [Flavien Solt]
- Fix Windows include gates in filesystem Flush implementation. (#4720). [William D. Jones]
- Fix power operator with wide numbers and constants (#4721) (#4763). [Flavien Solt]
- Fix parameter passing to ports (#4723). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd.]
- Fix block names of nested do..while loops (#4728). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd.]
- Fix class name in error on 'new' on virtual class (#4739). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd.]
- Fix typedefs pointing to parameterized classes (#4747). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd.]
- Fix $finish twice to no longer exit (#4757). [Tim Hutt]
- Fix dynamic NBA conditions (#4773). [Krzysztof Bieganski, Antmicro Ltd.]
- Fix V3Fork stage to run only if --timing is set (#4778). [Krzysztof Bieganski, Antmicro Ltd.]
- Fix max multiply width and add runtime assertions if too small. (#4781)
Major:
- Support compilation with precompiled headers with Make and GCC or CLang.
- Change include of systemc instead of systemc.h (#4622) (#4623). [Chih-Mao Chen] This may require that SystemC programs add 'using namespace sc_core', 'using namespace sc_dt'.
Minor:
- Add SIDEEFFECT warning on mishandled side effect cases.
- Add trace() API even when Verilated without --trace (#4462). [phelter]
- Add warning on interface instantiation without parens (#4094). [Gökçe Aydos]
- Add sv_vpi_user.h from IEEE 1800-2017 Annex M (#4606). [Marlon James]
- Support 'disable fork' (#4125) (#4569). [Aleksander Kiryk, Antmicro Ltd.]
- Support 'wait fork' (#4586). [Aleksander Kiryk, Antmicro Ltd.]
- Support 'randc' (#4349).
- Support assigning events (#4403). [Krzysztof Boroński]
- Support resizing function call inout arguments (#4467).
- Support NBAs in non-inlined functions/tasks (#4496) (#4572). [Krzysztof Bieganski, Antmicro Ltd.]
- Support converting parameters inside modules to localparams (#4511). [Anthony Donlon]
- Support concatenation of unpacked arrays (#4558). [Yutetsu TAKATSUKASA]
- Support Clang 16 (#4592). [Mariusz Glebocki]
- Support VPI variables of real and string data types (#4594). [Marlon James]
- Support making VL_LOCK_SPINS configurable (#4599). [Geza Lore]
- Change code --stats output (#4597). [Geza Lore]
- Change --prof-exec infrastructure and report (#4602). [Geza Lore]
- Change lint_off to not propagate upwards to files including where the lint_off is.
- Optimize empty expression statements (#4544).
- Optimize trace internals (#4610) (#4612). [Geza Lore]
- Optimize internal performance issues (#4638). [Geza Lore]
- Fix conversion of impure logical expressions to bit expressions (#487 partial) (#4437). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd.]
- Fix enum functions in localparams (#3999). [Andrew Nolte]
- Fix passing arguments by reference (#3385 partial) (#4489). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd.]
- Fix multithreading handling to separate by code units that use/never use it (#4228). [Mariusz Glebocki, Antmicro Ltd.]
- Fix usage of annotation options (#4486) (#4504). [Michal Czyz]
- Fix detecting local vars in nested forks (#4493) (#4506). [Kamil Rakoczy]
- Fix handling input file path separator (#4515) (#4516). [Anthony Donlon]
- Fix mis-support for parameterized UDPs (#4518). [Anthony Donlon]
- Fix constant conversion of $realtobits, $bitstoreal (#4522). [Andrew Nolte]
- Fix conversion of integers in $display '%e' (#4528). [muzafferkal]
- Fix non-inlined interface tracing (#3984) (#4530). [Todd Strader]
- Fix stream operations with operands of struct type (#4531) (#4532). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd.]
- Fix 'this' in a constructor (#4533). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd.]
- Fix stream shift operator of 32 bits (#4536). [Julien Faucher]
- Fix object destruction after a copy constructor (#4540) (#4541). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd.]
- Fix inlining of real functions miscasting (#4543). [Andrew Nolte]
- Fix broken link error for enum references (#4551). [Anthony Donlon]
- Fix logical expressions with class objects - caching in v3Const (#4552). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd.]
- Fix using functions/tasks following class definition inside module (#4553). [Anthony Donlon]
- Fix large constant buffer overflow (#4556). [Varun Koyyalagunta]
- Fix instance arrays connecting to array of structs (#4557). [raphmaster]
- Fix error message for invalid parameter overrides (#4559). [Anthony Donlon]
- Fix shift to remove operation side effects (#4563).
- Fix compile warning on unused member function variable (#4567).
- Fix method narrowing conversion compiler error (#4568).
- Fix interface comparison (#4570). [Krzysztof Bieganski, Antmicro Ltd.]
- Fix dynamic triggers for named events (#4571). [Krzysztof Bieganski, Antmicro Ltd.]
- Fix dictionaries with keys of class types (#4576). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd.]
- Fix to not remap local assign intervals in forks (#4583). [Krzysztof Bieganski, Antmicro Ltd.]
- Fix display optimization ignoring side effects (#4585).
- Fix PLI/DPI user defined system task/function grammar (#4587) (#4588). [Quentin Corradi]
- Fix fault on empty clocking block (#4593). [Alex Mykyta]
- Fix creating implicit nets for inputs of gate primitives (#4603). [Geza Lore]
- Fix try_put method of unbounded mailbox (#4608). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd.]
- Fix stable name generation in V3Fork (#4615) (#4624). [Krzysztof Boroński]
- Fix virtual methods (#4616). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd.]
- Fix insertion at queue end (#4619). [Krzysztof Boroński]
- Fix rand fields of reference types (#4627). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd.]
- Fix dynamic casts of null values (#4631). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd.]
- Fix signals read via virtual interfaces being misoptimized (#4645). [Krzysztof Bieganski, Antmicro Ltd.]
- Fix handling of static keyword in methods (#4649). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd.]
- Fix preprocessor to show `line 2 on resumed file.
Minor:
- Add prepareClone and atClone APIs for Verilated models (#3503) (#4444). [Yinan Xu]
- Add check for conflicting options e.g. binary and lint-only (#4409). [Ethan Sifferman]
- Add --no-trace-top to not trace top signals (#4412) (#4422). [Frans Skarman]
- Support recursive function calls (#3267).
- Support assignments of packed values to stream expressions on queues (#4401). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Support no-parentheses calls to static methods (#4432). [Krzysztof Boroński]
- Support block_item_declaration in forks (#4455). [Krzysztof Boroński]
- Support assignments of stream expressions on queues to packed values (#4458). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Support function non-constant default arguments (#4470).
- Support 'let'.
- Optimize Verilator executable size by refactoring error reporting routines (#4446). [Anthony Donlon]
- Optimize Verilation runtime pointers and graphs (#4396) (#4397) (#4398). [Krzysztof Bieganski, Antmicro Ltd]
- Optimize preparations towards multithreaded Verilation (#4291) (#4463) (#4476) (#4477) (#4479). [Kamil Rakoczy, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix Windows filename format, etc (#3873) (#4421). [Anthony Donlon].
- Fix t_dist_cppstyle Perl performance issue (#4085). [Srinivasan Venkataramanan]
- Fix using type in parameterized classes without #() (#4281) (#4440). [Anthony Donlon]
- Fix false INFINITELOOP on forever..mailbox.get() (#4323). [Srinivasan Venkataramanan]
- Fix data type of condition operation on class objects (#4345) (#4352). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix variables mutated under fork..join_none/join_any blocks into anonymous objects (#4356). [Krzysztof Boroński]
- Fix V3CUse, do not consider implementations (.cpp) at all (#4386). [Krzysztof Boroński]
- Fix ++/-- under statements (#4399). [Aleksander Kiryk, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix detection of mixed blocking and nonblocking assignment in nested assignments (#4404). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix jumping over object initialization (#4411). [Krzysztof Boroński]
- Fix multiple issues towards short circuit support (#4413) (#4460). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix variable lifetimes in extern methods (#4414). [Krzysztof Boroński]
- Fix multiple function definitions in V3Sched (#4416). [Hennadii Chernyshchyk]
- Fix false UNUSEDPARAM on generate localparam (#4427). [Bill Pringlemeir]
- Fix checking for parameter and port connections in the wrong place (#4428). [Anthony Donlon]
- Fix coroutine handle movement during queue manipulation (#4431). [Aleksander Kiryk, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix nested assignments on the LHS (#4435). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix false MULTITOP on bound interfaces (#4438). [Alex Solomatnikov]
- Fix internal error on real conversion (#4447). [vdhotre-ventana]
- Fix lifetime unknown error on enum.name (#4448). [jwoutersymatra]
- Fix unstable output of VHashSha256 (#4453). [Anthony Donlon]
- Fix static cast from a stream type (#4469) (#4485). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix error on enum with VARHIDDEN of cell (#4482). [Michail Rontionov]
- Fix lint of case statements with enum and wildcard bits (#4464) (#4487). [Anthony Donlon]
- Fix reference to extended class in parameterized class (#4466).
- Fix recursive display causing segfault (#4480). [Kuoping Hsu]
- Fix the error message when the type of ref argument is wrong (#4490). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix display %x formatting of real.
- Fix mis-warning on #() in classes' own functions.
- Fix IGNOREDRETURN to not warn on void-cast static function calls.
- Fix ZERODLY to not warn on 'wait(0)'.
Minor:
- Deprecation planned for 32-bit pointer -m32 mode (#4268).
- Deprecate CMake config below version 3.13 (#4389) (#4390). [Vito Gamberini]
- Support some stream operations on queues (#4292). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Support property declaration with empty parentheses (#4313) (#4317). [Anthony Donlon]
- Support locator methods with "with" on assoc arrays (#4335). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Support string replication with variable (#4341). [Aleksander Kiryk, Antmicro Ltd]
- Support more types in wait (#4374). [Aleksander Kiryk, Antmicro Ltd]
- Support static method calls as default values of function arguments (#4378). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Add GENUNNAMED lint warning. [Srinivasan Venkataramanan, Deepa Palaniappan]
- Add MISINDENT lint warning for misleading indentation.
- Fix 'VlForkSync' redeclaration (#4277). [Krzysztof Bieganski, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix processes that can outlive their parents (#4253). [Krzysztof Boronski, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix duplicate fork names (#4295). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix splitting coroutines (#4297) (#4307). [Jiamin Zhu]
- Fix error when multiple duplicate DPI exports (#4301).
- Fix class reference assignment checking (#4296). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix handling of ref types in initial values of type parameters (#4304). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix comparison of string parameters (#4308). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix state update for always processes (#4311). [Aleksander Kiryk, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix multiple edge timing controls in class methods (#4318) (#4320) (#4344). [Krzysztof Bieganski, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix implicit calls of base class constructors with optional arguments (#4319). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix propagation of process requirement (#4321). [Krzysztof Boroński]
- Fix unhandled overloads in V3InstrCount (#4324). [Krzysztof Boroński]
- Fix selects of static members (#4326). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix references to members of results of static methods (#4327). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix unique..with method on queues of class objects (#4328). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix queue slicing (#4329). [Aleksander Kiryk, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix wildcard referring types (#4336) (#4342). [Aleksander Kiryk, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix comparison of class objects (#4346). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix unexpected RefDType on assoc arrays (#4337). [Aleksander Kiryk, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix cmake astgen for Rocky Linux 8.7 (#4343). [Julian Daube]
- Fix class timescale in class packages (#4348). [Krzysztof Bieganski, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix string concatenations (#4354). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix unlinked task error from broken context (#4355) (#4402). [Aleksander Kiryk, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix selects on unpacked structs (#4359). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix select operation on assoc array with wide keys (#4360). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix non-public methods with wide output (#4364). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix handling of super.new calls (#4366). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix assign to input var in methods (#4367). [Aleksander Kiryk, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix VlProcess not found (#4368). [Aleksander Kiryk, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix order of evaluation of function calls in statements (#4375). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix config_build.h issues (#4380) (#4381). [Andrew Miloradovsky]
Major:
- With -j or --build-jobs, multithread Verilator's emit phase of Verilation. [Kamil Rakoczy, Antmicro Ltd] Additional Verilator-internal stages will become multithreaded over time.
Minor:
- Add --main-top-name option for C main TOP name (#4235) (#4249). [Don Williamson]
- Add creating __inputs.vpp file with --debug (#4177). [Tudor Timi]
- Add NEWERSTD warning when using feature in newer language standard (#4168) (#4172). [Ethan Sifferman]
- Add warning that timing controls in DPI exports are unsupported (#4238). [Krzysztof Bieganski, Antmicro Ltd]
- Support std::process class (#4212). [Aleksander Kiryk, Antmicro Ltd]
- Support inside expressions with strings and doubles (#4138) (#4139). [Krzysztof Boroński]
- Support get_randstate/set_randstate class method functions.
- Support for condition operator on class objects (#4214). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Support array max (#4275). [Aleksander Kiryk, Antmicro Ltd]
- Optimize VPI callValueCbs (#4155). [Hennadii Chernyshchyk]
- Configure for faster C++ linking using 'mold', if it is installed.
- Fix crash on duplicate imported modules (#3231). [Robert Balas]
- Fix false WIDTHEXPAND on array declarations (#3959). [JOTEGO]
- Fix marking overridden methods as coroutines (#4120) (#4169). [Krzysztof Bieganski, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix SystemC signal copy macro use (#4135). [Josep Sans]
- Fix duplicate static names in blocks in functions (#4144) (#4160). [Stefan Wallentowitz]
- Fix initialization order of initial static after function/task (#4159). [Kamil Rakoczy, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix linking AstRefDType if it has parameterized class ref (#4164) (#4170). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix crash caused by $display() optimization (#4165) (#4166). [Tudor Timi]
- Fix arrays of unpacked structs (#4173). [Risto Pejašinović]
- Fix $fscanf of decimals overflowing variables (#4174). [Ahmed El-Mahmoudy]
- Fix super.new missing data type (#4147). [Tudor Timi]
- Fix missing class forward declarations (#4151). [Krzysztof Boroński]
- Fix hashes of instances of parameterized classes (#4182). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix forced assignments that override non-continuous assignments (#4183) (#4192). [Krzysztof Bieganski, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix wide structure VL_TOSTRING_W generation (#4188) (#4189). [Aylon Chaim Porat]
- Fix references to members of parameterized base classes (#4196). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix tracing undefined alignment (#4201) (#4288) [John Wehle]
- Fix class specific same methods for AstVarScope, AstVar, and AstScope (#4203) (#4250). [John Wehle]
- Fix dotted references in parameterized classes (#4206). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix bit selections under parameterized classes (#4210). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix duplicate std:: declaration with -I (#4215). [Harald Pretl]
- Fix deep traversal of class inheritance timing (#4216). [Krzysztof Boroński]
- Fix class parameters of enum types (#4219). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix static methods with prototypes (#4220). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix LATCH warning on function local variables (#4221) (#4284) [Julien Margetts]
- Fix VCD scope types (#4227) (#4282). [Àlex Torregrosa]
- Fix incorrect multi-driven lint warning (#4231) (#4248). [Adrien Le Masle]
- Fix missing assignment for wide unpacked structs (#4233). [Jiamin Zhu]
- Fix unpacked struct == and != operators (#4234) (#4240). [Risto Pejašinović]
- Fix AstStructSel clean when data type is structure (#4241) (#4244). [Risto Pejašinović]
- Fix function calls in with statements (#4245). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix operator == for unpacked struct, if elements are VlUnpacked arrays (#4247). [Risto Pejašinović]
- Fix STATIC lifetime for variables created from clocking items (#4262). [Krzysztof Boroński]
- Fix names of foreach blocks (#4264). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix iterated variables in foreach loops to have VAUTOM lifetimes (#4265). [Krzysztof Boroński]
- Fix missing assignment for wide class members (#4267). [Jiamin Zhu]
- Fix the global uses timing flag when forks exist (#4274). [Krzysztof Bieganski, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix struct redefinition (#4276). [Aleksander Kiryk, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix detection of wire/reg duplicates.
- Fix false IMPLICITSTATIC on package functions.
- Fix method calls on function return values.
Minor:
- Add --public-depth to force public to a certain instance depth (#3952). [Andrew Nolte]
- Add --public-params flag (#3990). [Andrew Nolte]
- Add CONSTRAINTIGN warning when constraint ignored.
- Add STATICVAR warning and convert to automatic (#4018) (#4027) (#4030). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Add error if class types don't match (#4064). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Support class extends of package::class.
- Support class srandom and class random stability.
- Support class method calls without parenthesis (#3902) (#4082). [Srinivasan Venkataramanan]
- Support method calls without parenthesis (#4034). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Support parameterized return types of methods (#4122). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Support parameterized class references in extends statement (#4146). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Support complicated IEEE 'for' assignments.
- Support $fopen as an expression.
- Support ++/-- on dotted member variables.
- Optimize static trigger evaluation (#4142). [Geza Lore, X-EPIC]
- Optimize more xor trees (#4071). [Yutetsu TAKATSUKASA]
- Change range order warning from LITENDIAN to ASCRANGE (#4010). [Iztok Jeras]
- Change ZERODLY to a warning.
- Fix random internal crashes (#666). [Dag Lem]
- Fix install, standardization in cmake CMakeLists.txt (#3974). [Yu-Sheng Lin]
- Fix UNDRIVEN warning seg fault (#3989). [Felix Neumärker]
- Fix symbol entries when inheriting classes (#3995) (#3996). [Krzysztof Boroński]
- Fix event controls reusing same variable (#4014). Kamil Rakoczy <[email protected]>
- Fix push to dynamic queue in struct (#4015). [ezchi]
- Fix names for blocks in do..while loop (#4019). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix randomize on null field (#4023). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix rand fields in base classes (#4025). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix large return blocks with --comp-limit-blocks (#4028). [tenghtt]
- Fix clocking block scope internal error (#4032). [Srinivasan Venkataramanan]
- Fix false LATCH warning on --assert 'unique else if' (#4033) ($4054). [Jesse Taube]
- Fix characters from DEFENV literals for Conda (#4035) (#4044). [Tim Snyder]
- Fix info message prints under --assert (#4036) (#4053). [Srinivasan Venkataramanan]
- Fix C++ compile errors when passing class refs as task argument (#4063). [Krzysztof Bieganski, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix NBAs inside fork-joins (#4050). [Aleksander Kiryk, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix task calls as fork statements (#4055). [Krzysztof Bieganski, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix _Vilp used before declaration (#4057) (#4062). [Josep Sans]
- Fix incorrect optimization of bit op tree (#4059) (#4070). [Yutetsu TAKATSUKASA]
- Fix parameters in a class body to be localparam (#4061). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix interface generate begin (#4065). [Srinivasan Venkataramanan]
- Fix tracing with awaits at end of block (#4075) (#4076). [Krzysztof Bieganski, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix sense expression variable naming (#4081). [Kamil Rakoczy]
- Fix importing symbols from base class (#4084). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix false error on new const assignment (#4098). [Tudor Timi]
- Fix unpacked structs under classes (#4102). [Tudor Timi]
- Fix variables in class methods to be automatic (#4111) (#4137). [Peter Monsson]
- Fix to use parallel build for projects with a lot of files (#4116). [Krzysztof Boroński]
- Fix including __Syms header in generated C++ files (#4123). [Krzysztof Boroński]
- Fix systemc namespace issues (#4126) (#4127). [Eyck Jentzsch]
- Fix class param extends A=B (#4128). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix missing begin block hierarchy in --xml-only cells section (#4129) (#4133). [Risto Pejašinović]
- Fix resolution of class lvalues after parameterization (#4131). [Krzysztof Boroński]
- Fix DFG error on $countbits (#4101) (#4143). [Paul Donahue]
- Fix duplicating parameter class types (#4115). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix class extend param references (#4136). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix -CFLAGS to allow overriding optimization levels (#4140). [Peter Monsson]
- Fix DPI function type alias (#4148) (#4149). [Toru Niina]
- Fix deleting unused parameterized classes (#4150). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix false ENUMVALUE on expressions and arrays.
- Fix unnecessary verilated_std.sv waivers in --waiver-output.
Minor:
- Add --annotate-points option, change multipoint on line reporting (#3876). [Nassim Corteggiani]
- Add --verilate-jobs option (#3889). [Kamil Rakoczy, Antmicro Ltd]
- Add WIDTHEXPAND and WIDTHTRUNC warnings to replace WIDTH (#3900). [Andrew Nolte]
- Add SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH for docs/guide/conf.py (#3918). [Larry Doolittle]
- Add /verilator public[flat|flat_rd|flat_rw| ]/ metacomments (#3894). [Joseph Nwabueze]
- Add lint warning on always_comb multidriven (#3888) (#3939). [Adam Bagley]
- Add warning on ++/-- over expressions with potential side effects (#3976). [Krzysztof Boroński]
- Add error on mixing .name and by-port instantiations.
- Removed deprecated --cdc option.
- Support unpacked unions.
- Support interface classes and class implements.
- Support global clocking and $global_clock.
- Support class parameters without initial values.
- Support cast to numbers from strings.
- Support struct I/O in --lib-create (#3378) (#3892). [Varun Koyyalagunta]
- Support function calls without parenthesis (#3903) (#3902). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Support class extending its parameter (#3904). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Support static function variables (#3830). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Support recursive methods (#3987). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix real parameters of infinity and NaN.
- Fix pattern assignment to unpacked structs (#3510). [Mostafa Garnal]
- Fix single-element replication to dynarray/unpacked/queue (#3548). [Gustav Svensk]
- Fix constant enum methods (#3621). [Todd Strader]
- Fix inconsistent naming of generate scope arrays (#3840). [Andrew Nolte]
- Fix namespace fallback resolution (#3863) (#3942). [Aleksander Kiryk, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix std:: to be parsed first (#3864) (#3928). [Aleksander Kiryk, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix cmake warning if multiple SOURCES w/o PREFIX (#3916) (#3927). [Yoda Lee]
- Fix parameterized class function linkage (#3917). [Ryszard Rozak]
- Fix static members of type aliases of a parameterized class (#3922). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix class extend parameter dot case (#3926). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix MsWin missing directory exception, and ::std (#3928) (#3933) (#3935). [Kritik Bhimani]
- Fix very long VPI signal names (#3929). [Marlon James]
- Fix VPI upper interface scopes not found (#3937). [David Stanford]
- Fix virus detection false positive (#3944). [Stuart Morris]
- Fix constant string function assignment (#3945). [Todd Strader]
- Fix constant format field widths (#3946). [Todd Strader]
- Fix class field linking when a super classes is a param (#3949). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix CMake bad C identifiers (#3948) (#3951). [Zixi Li]
- Fix build on HP PA architecture (#3954). [John David Anglin]
- Fix date on the front page of verilator.pdf (#3956) (#3957). [Larry Doolittle]
- Fix associative arrays declared with ref type (#3960). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix missing error on negative replicate (#3963). [Benjamin Menküc]
- Fix self references to parameterized classes (#3962). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix LITENDIAN warning is backwards (#3966) (#3967). [Cameron Kirk]
- Fix subsequent parameter declarations (#3969). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix timing delays to not truncate below 64 bits (#3973) (#3982). [Felix Neumärker]
- Fix cmake on MacOS to mark weak symbols with -U linker flag (#3978) (#3979). [Peter Debacker]
- Fix UNDRIVEN warning seg fault (#3989). [Felix Neumärker]
- Fix coverage of class methods (#3998). [Tim Paine]
- Fix packed array structure replication.
- Fix enum.next(0) and enum.prev(0).
Minor:
- Support clocking blocks (#3674). [Krzysztof Bieganski, Antmicro Ltd]
- Support packed structs (#3802). [Aleksander Kiryk, Antmicro Ltd]
- Support Windows-native builds using cmake (#3814). [Kritik Bhimani]
- Support p format for UnpackArray (#3877). [Aleksander Kiryk, Antmicro Ltd]
- Support property calls without parenthesis (#3879) (#3893). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Support import/export lists in modport (#3886). [Gökçe Aydos]
- Support class queue equality (#3895). [Ilya Barkov]
- Support type case and type equality comparisons.
- Add IMPLICITSTATIC warning when a task/function is implicitly static (#3839). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Add VL_VALUE_STRING_MAX_WORDS override (#3869). [Andrew Nolte]
- Optimize expansion of extend operators.
- Internal multithreading tests. [Mariusz Glebocki, et al, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix VPI one-time timed callbacks (#2778). [Marlon James, et al]
- Fix initiation of function variables (#3815). [Dan Gisselquist]
- Fix to zero possibly uninitialized bits in replications (#3815).
- Fix crash in DFT due to width use after free (#3817) (#3820). [Jevin Sweval]
- Fix signed/unsigned comparison compile warning (#3822). [Kamil Rakoczy]
- Fix OS-X weak symbols with -U linker flag (#3823). [Jevin Sweval]
- Fix wrong bit op tree optimization (#3824) (#3825). [Yutetsu TAKATSUKASA]
- Fix self references when param class instantiated (#3833). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix memory leak in V3Sched, etc. (#3834). [Geza Lore]
- Fix compatibility with musl libc / Alpine Linux (#3845). [Sören Tempel]
- Fix empty case items crash (#3851). [Rich Porter]
- Fix VL_CPU_RELAX on MIPS/Armel/s390/sparc (#3843) (#3891). [Kamil Rakoczy]
- Fix module parameter name collision (#3854) (#3855). [James Shi]
- Fix unpacked array expansion (#3861). [Joey Liu]
- Fix signed/unsigned parameter types (#3866). [James Shi]
- Fix chain call of abstract class constructor (#3868) (#3883). [Ilya Barkov]
- Fix to use same std in Verilator and Verilated compile (#3881). [Kamil Rakoczy, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix foreach unnamedblk duplicate error (#3885). [Ilya Barkov]
- Fix elaboration of member selected classes (#3890). [Ilya Barkov]
- Fix mismatched widths in DFG (#3872). [Geza Lore, Yike Zhou]
- Fix lint for non-integral types in packed structs.
- Fix generate case with empty body statements.
Major:
- Support named properties (#3667). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Add ENUMVALUE warning when value misused for enum (#726) (#3777) (#3783).
- Deprecate --no-threads; use --threads 1 for single threaded (#3703). [Kamil Rakoczy, Antmicro Ltd]
Minor:
- Support std::semaphore and typed std::mailbox (#3708). [Krzysztof Bieganski, Antmicro Ltd]
- Support 'with' in unique, unique_index, min, max in queues (#3772). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Support events in VCD/FST traces (#3759). [Yves Mathieu]
- Support foreach loops on strings (#3760). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Support member selects in with clauses (#3775). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Support super.new calls (#3789). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Support randcase.
- Support pre_randomize and post_randomize.
- Support $timeunit and $timeprecision.
- Support assignment expressions.
- Change ENDLABEL from warning into an error.
- Internal AST improvements, also affect XML format (#3721). [Geza Lore]
- Deprecate verilated_fst_sc.cpp and verilated_vcd_sc.cpp.
- Disable stack size limit (#3706) (#3751). [Mariusz Glebocki]
- Add error when use --exe with --lib-create (#3785). [Yinan Xu]
- Fix jump handling in do while loops (#3731). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix 'with' clause handling in functions (#3739). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix CONTEXT compile error on MingW (#3741). [William D. Jones]
- Fix MSVC compiler errors (#3742) (#3746). [Kritik Bhimani]
- Fix CASEINCOMPLETE when covers all enum values (#3745) (#3782). [Guy-Armand Kamendje]
- Fix return type of $countbits functions to int (#3725). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix timing control in while-break loops (#3733) (#3769). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix return in constructors (#3734). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix missing UNUSED warnings with --coverage (#3736). [alejandro-castro-ortegon]
- Fix tracing parameters overridden with -G (#3723). [Iztok Jeras]
- Fix folding of LogAnd with non-bool operands (#3726). [Geza Lore]
- Fix DFG optimization issues (#3740) (#3771). [Geza Lore]
- Fix pre/postincrement operations (#3744) (#3756). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix cross-compile for MingW, Arm and RISC-V (#3752). [Miodrag Milanović]
- Fix $unit as base package for other packages (#3755). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix make jobserver with submakes (#3758). [Gus Smith]
- Fix to escape VERILATOR_ROOT file paths (#3764) (#3765). [Jiacheng Qian]
- Fix empty string literals converting to string types (#3774). [miree]
- Fix to remove $date from .vcd files (#3779). [Larry Doolittle]
- Fix missing user objects in --lib-create mode (#3780) (#3784). [Yinan Xu]
- Fix non-blocking assignments in forks (#3781) (#3800). [Krzysztof Bieganski, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix forks without any delayed statements (#3792) (#3801). [Krzysztof Bieganski, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix internal error in bit op tree optimization (#3793). [Yutetsu TAKATSUKASA]
- Fix lint_off EOFNEWLINE in .vlt files (#3796). [Andrew Nolte]
- Fix wait 0.
- Fix comparing ranged slices of unpacked arrays.
Major:
- This is a major new release.
- Require C++20 for the new --timing features. Upgrading to a C++20 or newer compiler is strongly recommended.
- Support the Active and NBA scheduling regions as defined by the SystemVerilog standard (IEEE 1800-2017 chapter 4). This means all generated clocks are now simulated correctly (#3278, #3384). [Geza Lore, Shunyao CAD]
- Support timing controls (delays, event controls in any location, wait statements) and forks. [Krzysztof Bieganski, Antmicro Ltd] This may require adding --timing or --no-timing. See docs for details.
- Introduce a new combinational logic optimizer (DFG), that can yield significant performance improvements on some designs. [Geza Lore, Shunyao CAD]
- Add --binary option as alias of --main --exe --build --timing (#3625). For designs where C++ was only used to make a simple no-I/O testbench, we recommend abandoning that C++, and instead letting Verilator build it with --binary (or --main).
Minor:
- Split UNUSED warning into genvar, param, and signal warnings (#3607). [Topa Topino]
- Support standalone 'this' in classes (#2594) (#3248) (#3675). [Arkadiusz Kozdra, Antmicro Ltd]
- Support tristate select/extend (#3604). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd>
- Support linting for top module interfaces (#3635). [Kanad Kanhere]
- Support virtual interfaces (#3654). [Arkadiusz Kozdra, Antmicro Ltd]
- Support class type params without defaults (#3693). [Krzysztof Bieganski, Antmicro Ltd]
- Support empty generate_regions (#3695). [mpb27]
- Support access to constructs inside type parameters (#3702). [Arkadiusz Kozdra, Antmicro Ltd]
- Add --dump-tree-dot to enable dumping Ast Tree .dot files (#3636). [Marcel Chang]
- Add --get-supported to determine what features are in Verilator.
- Add error on real edge event control.
- Fix false LATCH warning on 'unique if' (#3088). [Rachit Nigam]
- Fix cell assigning integer array parameters (#3299). [Michael Platzer]
- Fix LSB error on --hierarchical submodules (#3539). [danbone]
- Fix $display of fixed-width numbers (#3565). [Iztok Jeras]
- Fix foreach and pre/post increment in functions (#3613). [Nandu Raj]
- Fix linker errors in user-facing timing functions (#3657). [Krzysztof Bieganski, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix null access on optimized-out fork statements (#3658). [Krzysztof Bieganski, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix VPI inline module naming mismatch (#3690) (#3694). [Jiuyang Liu]
- Fix deadlock in timeprecision when using SystemC (#3707). [Kamil Rakoczy, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix width mismatch on inside operator (#3714). [Àlex Torregrosa]
Announcement:
- The next release is anticipated to premiere Verilator Version 5. Please consider beta-testing the github 'develop-v5' branch, which will soon merge into the github 'master' branch (#3383).
Minor:
- Support some IEEE signal strengths (#3601) (#3629). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Add --main to generate main() C++ (previously was experimental only).
- Add --build-jobs, and rework arguments for -j (#3623). [Kamil Rakoczy]
- Rename --bin to --build-dep-bin.
- Rename debug flags --dumpi-tree, --dumpi-graph, etc. [Geza Lore]
- Fix thread safety in SystemC VL_ASSIGN_SBW/WSB (#3494) (#3513). [Mladen Slijepcevic]
- Fix crash in gate optimization of circular logic (#3543). [Bill Flynn]
- Fix arguments in non-static method call (#3547) (#3582). [Gustav Svensk]
- Fix default --mod-prefix when --prefix is repeated (#3603). [Geza Lore]
- Fix calling trace() after open() segfault (#3610) (#3627). [Yu-Sheng Lin]
- Fix typedef'ed class conversion to Boolean (#3616). [Aleksander Kiryk]
- Fix Verilation speed when disabled warnings (#3632). [Kamil Rakoczy, Antmicro Ltd]
Minor:
- Add --future0 and --future1 options.
- Support class parameters (#2231) (#3541). [Arkadiusz Kozdra, Antmicro Ltd]
- Support wildcard index associative arrays (#3501). [Arkadiusz Kozdra, Antmicro Ltd]
- Support negated properties (#3572). [Aleksander Kiryk]
- Support $test$plusargs(expr) (#3489).
- Rename trace rolloverSize() (#3570).
- Improve Verilation speed with --threads on large designs. [Geza Lore]
- Improve Verilation memory by reducing V3Number (#3521). [Mariusz Glebocki, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix struct pattern assignment (#2328) (#3517). [Mostafa Gamal]
- Fix public combo propagation issues (#2905). [Todd Strader]
- Fix incorrect tristate logic (#3399) [shareefj, Vighnesh Iyer]
- Fix incorrect bit op tree optimization (#3470). [algrobman]
- Fix bisonpre for MSYS2 (#3471).
- Fix max memory usage (#3483). [Kamil Rakoczy, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix empty string arguments to display (#3484). [Grulfen]
- Fix table optimizing away display (#3488). [Stefan Post]
- Fix unique_ptr memory header for MinGW64 (#3493).
- Fix $dump system task with --output-split-cfuncs (#3495) (#3497). [Varun Koyyalagunta]
- Fix wrong bit op tree optimization (#3509). [Nathan Graybeal]
- Fix nested default assignment for struct pattern (#3511) (#3524). [Mostafa Gamal]
- Fix sformat string incorrectly cleared (#3515) (#3519). [Gustav Svensk]
- Fix segfault exporting non-existent package (#3535).
- Fix void-cast queue pop_front or pop_back (#3542) (#3364). [Drew Ranck]
- Fix case statement comparing string literal (#3544). [Gustav Svensk]
- Fix === with some tristate constants (#3551). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix converting classes to string (#3552). [Arkadiusz Kozdra, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix --hierarchical with order-based pin connections (#3583) (#3585). [Kelin9298]
Major:
- VCD tracing is now parallelized with --threads (#3449). [Geza Lore, Shunyao CAD]
Minor:
- Add -f<optimization> options to replace -O<letter> options (#3436).
- Changed --no-merge-const-pool to -fno-merge-const-pool (#3436).
- Changed --no-decoration to remove output whitespace (#3460). [Kamil Rakoczy]
- Support compile time trace signal selection with tracing_on/off (#3323). [Shunyao CAD]
- Support non-ANSI interface port declarations (#3439). [Geza Lore, Shunyao CAD]
- Support concat assignment to packed array (#3446).
- Improve conditional merging optimization (#3125). [Geza Lore, Shunyao CAD]
- Define VM_TRACE_VCD when tracing in VCD format. [Geza Lore, Shunyao CAD]
- Add assert when VerilatedContext is mis-deleted (#3121). [Rupert Swarbrick]
- Internal prep work towards timing control. [Krzysztof Bieganski, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix hang with large case statement optimization (#3405). [Mike Urbach]
- Fix UNOPTFLAT warning from initial static var (#3406). [Kamil Rakoczy]
- Fix compile error when enable VL_LEAK_CHECKS (#3411). [HungMingWu]
- Fix cmake rules to support higher-level targets (#3377) (#3386). [Martin Stadler]
- Fix BLKANDNBLK on $readmem/$writemem (#3379). [Alex Solomatnikov]
- Fix 'with' operator with type casting (#3387). [xiak95]
- Fix incorrect conditional merging (#3409). [Raynard Qiao]
- Fix passing VL_TRACE_FST_WRITER_THREAD in CMake build. [Geza Lore, Shunyao CAD]
- Fix compile error under strict C++11 mode (#3463). [Kevin Kiningham]
- Fix public unpacked input ports (#3465). [Todd Strader]
Minor:
- Split --prof-threads into --prof-exec and --prof-pgo (#3365). [Geza Lore, Shunyao CAD]
- Deprecate 'vluint64_t' and similar types (#3255).
- Raise error on assignment to const in initial blocks. [Geza Lore, Shunyao CAD]
- Issue INITIALDLY/COMBDLY/BLKSEQ warnings consistent with Verilator execution. [Geza Lore, Shunyao CAD]
- Support LoongArch ISA multithreading (#3353) (#3354). [Xi Zhang]
- Fix MSVC localtime_s (#3124).
- Fix Bison 3.8.2 error (#3366). [elike-ypq]
- Fix rare bug in -Oz (V3Localize) (#3286). [Geza Lore, Shunyao CAD]
- Fix tracing interfaces inside interfaces (#3309). [Kevin Millis]
- Fix filenames with dots overwriting debug .vpp files (#3373).
- Fix including VK_USER_OBJS in make library (#3370) (#3382). [Julien Margetts]
- Fix hang in generate symbol references (#3391) (#3398). [Yoda Lee]
- Fix missing #include <memory> (#3392). [Aliaksei Chapyzhenka]
- Fix crash in recursive module inlining (#3393). [david-sawatzke]
- Fix --protect-ids mangling names of library methods. [Geza Lore, Shunyao CAD]
- Fix foreach segmentation fault (#3400). [Kamil Rakoczy]
Minor:
- Removed the deprecated lint_off flag -msg; use -rule instead.
- Removed the deprecated "fl" attribute in XML output; use "loc" attribute instead.
- Suppress WIDTH warning on negate using carry bit (#3295). [Peter Monsson]
- Add trace dumpvars() call for selective runtime tracing (#3322). [Shunyao CAD]
- Add VERILATOR_VERSION_INTEGER for determining API (#3343). [Larry Doolittle]
- Improve various V3Combine algorithm details (#3328). [Yutetsu TAKATSUKASA]
- Improve various V3Order algorithm details. [Geza Lore]
- Fix MacOS arm64 build (#3285) (#3291). [Guokai Chen]
- Fix signed number operation (#3294) (#3308). [Raynard Qiao]
- Fix FST traces to include vector range (#3296) (#3297). [Jamie Iles]
- Fix skipping public enum values with four-state values (#3303).
- Fix $readmem file not found to be warning not error (#3310). [Alexander Grobman]
- Fix class stringification on wide arrays (#3312). [Iru Cai]
- Fix $fscanf etc to return -1 on EOF (#3313). [Jose Tejada]
- Fix public function arguments that are arrayed (#3316). [pawel256]
- Fix unnamedblk error on foreach (#3321). [Aliaksei Chapyzhenka]
- Fix crash in recursive module inlining (#3324). [Larry Doolittle]
- Fix VL_RESTORER behavior on passing a lvalue reference (#3326). [HungMingWu]
- Fix compile error with --trace-fst --sc (#3332). [leavinel]
- Fix cast to array types (#3333). [Todd Strader]
- Fix Vdeeptemp error with --threads and --compiler clang (#3338). [Per Karlsson]
Major:
- Primary inputs and outputs (VL_INW/VL_OUTW) now use VlWide type. In general this should be backward compatible, but may lead to some wrapper code needing changes.
- Option --cdc is deprecated and is planned for removal, file a bug if this is still being used.
Minor:
- Support class static members (#2233).
- Support force/release (#2431) (#2593). [Shunyao CAD]
- Add 'forceable' attribute to allow forcing from C++. (#3272). [Geza Lore, Shunyao CAD]
- Support lower dimension looping in foreach loops (#3172). [Ehab Ibrahim]
- Support up to 64 bit enums for .next/.prev/.name (#3244). [Alexander Grobman]
- Reduce .rodata footprint of trace initialization (#3250). [Geza Lore, Shunyao CAD]
- Support FST tracing in hierarchical Verilation (#3251). [Yutetsu TAKATSUKASA]
- Use C++11 standard types for MacOS portability (#3254) (#3257). [Adrien Le Masle]
- Fix make support for BSD ar (#2999) (#3256). [Julie Schwartz]
- Fix bad ending address on $readmem (#3205). [Julie Schwartz]
- Fix MSWIN compile error (#2681). [Unai Martinez-Corral]
- Fix break under foreach loop (#3230).
- Fix VL_STREAML_FAST_QQI with 64 bit left-hand-side (#3232) (#3235). [Adrien Le Masle]
- Fix $sformat of inputs/outputs (#3236). [Adrien Le Masle]
- Fix associative array first method as statement (#3228). [Adrien Le Masle]
- Fix associative array foreach loop (#3229).
- Fix $fclose not accepting expressions (#3237). [Julie Schwartz]
- Fix $random not updating seed (#3238). [Julie Schwartz]
- Fix top level param overwrite when package has same param (#3241) (#3247). [Adrien Le Masle]
- Fix spurious UNUSED by ignoring inout pin connections (#3242). [Julie Schwartz]
- Fix splitting of _eval and other top level functions. [Geza Lore, Shunyao CAD]
- Fix internal error by inout port (#3258). [Yutetsu TAKATSUKASA]
- Fix GCC 11 compile error (#3273). [HungMingWu]
Major:
- Add --lib-create, similar to --protect-lib but without protections.
- Support tracing through --hierarchical/--lib-create libraries (#3200).
Minor:
- Internal code cleanups and improvements. [Geza Lore]
- Improve --thread Verilation-time performance.
- Support task name in $display %m (#3211). [Julie Schwartz]
- Make 'bit', 'logic' and 'time' types unsigned by default. [Geza Lore]
- Optimize $random concatenates/selects (#3114).
- Fix array method names with parenthesis (#3181) (#3183). [Teng Huang]
- Fix split_var assign merging (#3177) (#3179). [Yutetsu TAKATSUKASA]
- Fix wrong bit op tree optimization (#3185). [Yutetsu TAKATSUKASA]
- Fix some SliceSels not being constants (#3186) (#3218). [Michaël Lefebvre]
- Fix nested generate if genblk naming (#3189). [yanx21]
- Fix hang on recursive definition error (#3199). [Jonathan Kimmitt]
- Fix display of signed without format (#3204). [Julie Schwartz]
- Fix display of empty string constant (#3207) (#3215). [Julie Schwartz]
- Fix incorrect width after and-or optimization (#3208). [Julie Schwartz]
- Fix $fopen etc on integer arrays (#3214). [adrienlemasle]
- Fix $size on dynamic strings (#3216).
- Fix %0 format on $value$plusargs (#3217).
- Fix timescale portability on Arm64 (#3222).
Major:
- Add profile-guided optimization of mtasks (#3150).
Minor:
- Verilator_gantt has removed the ASCII graphics, use the VCD output instead.
- Verilator_gantt now shows the predicted mtask times, eval times, and additional statistics.
- Verilator_gantt data files now include processor information, to allow later processing.
- Support displaying x and z in $display task (#3107) (#3109). [Iru Cai]
- Fix verilator_profcfunc profile accounting (#3115).
- Fix display has no time units on class function (#3116). [Damien Pretet]
- Fix removing if statement with side effect in condition (#3131). [Alexander Grobman]
- Fix --waiver-output for multiline warnings (#2429) (#3141). [Keith Colbert]
- Fix internal error on bad widths (#3140) (#3145). [Zhanglei Wang]
- Fix crash on clang 12/13 (#3148). [Kuoping Hsu]
- Fix cygwin compile error due to missing -std=gnu++14 (#3149). [Sun Kim]
- Fix $urandom_range when the range is 0 ... UINT_MAX (#3161). [Iru Cai]
- Fix constructor-parameter argument comma-separation in C++ (#3162). [Matthew Ballance]
- Fix missing install of vl_file_copy/vl_hier_graph (#3165). [Popolon]
- Fix calling new with arguments in same class (#3166). [Matthew Ballance]
- Fix false EOFNEWLINE warning when DOS carriage returns present (#3171).
Minor:
- Fix re-evaluation of logic dependent on state set in DPI exports (#3091). [Geza Lore]
- Support unpacked array localparams in tasks/functions (#3078). [Geza Lore]
- Support timeunit/timeprecision in $unit.
- Support assignment patterns as children of pins (#3041). [Krzysztof Bieganski, Antmicro Ltd]
- Add --instr-count-dpi to tune assumed DPI import cost for multithreaded model scheduling. Default value changed to 200 (#3068). [Yinan Xu]
- Output files are split based on the set of headers required in order to aid incremental compilation via ccache (#3071). [Geza Lore]
- Parameter values are now emitted as 'static constexpr' instead of enum. C++ direct references to parameters might require updating (#3077). [Geza Lore]
- Refactored Verilated include files; include verilated.h not verilated_heavy.h.
- Add header guards on Dpi.h generated files (#2979). [Tood Strader]
- Add XML ccall, constpool, initarray, and if/while begins (#3080). [Steven Hugg]
- Add error when constant function under a generate (#3103). [Don Owen]
- Fix -G to treat simple integer literals as signed (#3060). [Anikin1610]
- Fix emitted string array initializers (#2895). [Iztok Jeras]
- Fix bitop tree optimization dropping necessary & operator (#3096). [Flavien Solt]
- Fix internal error on wide -x-initial unique (#3106). [Alexandre Joannou]
- Fix traces to show array instances with brackets (#3092) (#3095). [Pieter Kapsenberg]
Major:
- Generated code is now emitted as global functions rather than methods. '$c' contents might need to be updated, see the docs (#3006). [Geza Lore]
- The generated model class instantiated by the user is now an interface object and no longer the TOP module instance. User code with direct C++ member access to model internals, including verilator public_flat items will likely need to be updated. See the manual for instructions: https://verilator.org/guide/latest/connecting.html#porting-from-pre-4-210 (#3036). [Geza Lore]
Minor:
- Add --prof-c to pass profiling to compiler (#3059). [Alexander Grobman]
- Optimize a lot more model variables into function locals (#3027). [Geza Lore]
- Support middle-of-design nested top modules (#3026). [Dan Petrisko]
- Remove deprecated --no-relative-cfuncs option (#3024). [Geza Lore]
- Remove deprecated --inhibit-sim option (#3035). [Geza Lore]
- Merge const static data globally into a new constant pool (#3013). [Geza Lore]
- Allow configure override of AR program (#2999). [ahouska]
- In XML, show pinIndex information (#2877). [errae233]
- Fix error on unsupported recursive functions (#2957). [Trefor Southwell]
- Fix type parameter specialization when struct names are same (#3055). [7FM]
- Improve speed of table optimization (-OA) pass. [Geza Lore]
Minor:
- Add 'make ccache-report' (#3011). [Geza Lore]
- Add --reloop-limit argument (#2943) (#2960). [Geza Lore]
- Add --expand-limit argument (#3005). [Julien Margetts]
- Add TRACE_THREADS to CMake (#2934). [Jonathan Drolet]
- Optimize large lookup tables to static data (#2925). [Geza Lore]
- Optimize reloop to accept constant index offsets (#2939). [Geza Lore]
- Split always blocks to better respect --output-split-cfuncs. [Geza Lore]
- Support ignoring "`pragma protect ..." (#2886). [Udi Finkelstein]
- Support --trace-fst for SystemC with CMake (#2927). [Jonathan Drolet]
- Update cmake latest C++ Standard Compilation flag (#2951). [Ameya Vikram Singh]
- Prep work towards better ccache hashing/performance. [Geza Lore]
- Fix assertion failure in bitOpTree optimization (#2891) (#2899). [Raynard Qiao]
- Fix DPI functions not seen as vpiModule (#2893). [Todd Strader]
- Fix bounds check in VL_SEL_IWII (#2910). [Krzysztof Bieganski, Antmicro Ltd]
- Fix slowdown in elaboration (#2911). [Nathan Graybeal]
- Fix initialization of assoc in assoc array (#2914). [myftptoyman]
- Fix make support for gmake 3.x (#2920) (#2921). [Philipp Wagner]
- Fix VPI memory access for packed arrays (#2922). [Todd Strader]
- Fix MCD close also closing stdout (#2931). [Alexander Grobman]
- Fix split procedures to better respect --output-split-cfuncs (#2942). [Geza Lore]
- Fix to emit 'else if' without nesting (#2944). [Geza Lore]
- Fix part select issues in LATCH warning (#2948) (#2938). [Julien Margetts]
- Fix to not emit empty files with low split limits (#2961). [Geza Lore]
- Fix merging of assignments in C++ code (#2970). [Rupert Swarbrick]
- Fix unused variable warnings (#2991). [Pieter Kapsenberg]
- Fix --protect-ids when using SV classes (#2994). [Geza Lore]
- Fix constant function calls with uninitialized value (#2995). [yanx21]
- Fix Makefiles to support Windows EXEEXT usage (#3008). [Miodrag Milanovic]
Major:
- Documentation has been rewritten into a book format.
- Verilated signals now use VlWide and VlPacked in place of C arrays.
Minor:
- Add an URL on warnings to point to the manual's description.
- Add EOFNEWLINE warning when missing a newline at EOF.
- Changed TIMESCALEMOD from error into a warning.
- Mark --no-relative-cfuncs as scheduled for deprecation.
- Add --coverage-max-width (#2853). [xuejiazidi]
- Add VerilatedCovContext::forcePerInstance (#2793). [Kevin Laeufer]
- Add FST SystemC tracing (#2806). [Àlex Torregrosa]
- Add PINNOTFOUND warning in place of error (#2868). [Udi Finkelstein]
- Support overlaps in priority case statements (#2864). [Rupert Swarbrick]
- Support for null ports (#2875). [Udi Finkelstein]
- Fix class unpacked-array compile error (#2774). [Iru Cai]
- Fix scope types in FST and VCD traces (#2805). [Àlex Torregrosa]
- Fix exceeding command-line ar limit (#2834). [Yinan Xu]
- Fix false $dumpfile warning on model save (#2834). [Yinan Xu]
- Fix --timescale-override not suppressing TIMESCALEMOD (#2838). [Kaleb Barrett]
- Fix false TIMESCALEMOD on generate-ignored instances (#2838). [Kaleb Barrett]
- Fix --output-split with class extends (#2839). [Iru Cai]
- Fix false WIDTHCONCAT on casted constant (#2849). [Rupert Swarbrick]
- Fix tracing of long hashed names (#2854). [Graham Rushton]
- Fix --public-flat-rw / DPI issue (#2858). [Todd Strader]
- Fix interface localparam access (#2859). [Todd Strader]
- Fix Cygwin example compile issues (#2856). [Mark Shaw]
- Fix select of with index variable (#2880). [Alexander Grobman]
- Fix cmake version number to be numeric (#2881). [Yuri Victorovich]
- Fix MinGW not supporting 'localtime_r' (#2882). [HyungKi Jeong]
- Fix cast from packed, typedef'ed interface signal (#2884). [Todd Strader]
- Fix VPI package reported as vpiModule (#2885). [Todd Strader]
- Fix dumping waveforms to multiple FST files (#2889). [David Metz]
- Fix assertion failure in bitOpTree (#2892). [Yutetsu TAKATSUKASA]
- Fix V3Premit infinite loop on always read-and-write (#2898). [Raynard Qiao]
- Fix VPI packed vectors (#2900). [Todd Strader]
- Fix VPI public interface parameters (#2901). [Todd Strader]
Announcement:
- --inhibit-sim is planned for deprecation, file a bug if this is still being used.
Major:
- Add simulation context (VerilatedContext) to allow multiple fully independent models to be in the same process. Please see the updated examples. (#2660)
- Add context->time() and context->timeInc() API calls, to set simulation time. These now are recommended in place of the legacy sc_time_stamp().
Minor:
- Converted Asciidoc documentation into reStructuredText (RST) format.
- Fix range inheritance on port without data type (#2753). [Embedded Go]
- Fix slice-assign overflow (#2803) (#2811). [David Turner]
- Fix interface array connection ordering broken in v4.110 (#2827). [Don Owen]
- Fix or-reduction on different scopes broken in 4.110 (#2828). [Yinan Xu]
- Fix MSVC++ compile error. (#2831) (#2833) [Drew Taussig]
Major:
- Optimize bit operations and others (#2186) (#2632) (#2633) (#2751) (#2800) [Yutetsu TAKATSUKASA]
Minor:
- Support concat selection (#2721).
- Support struct scopes when dumping structs to VCD (#2776) [Àlex Torregrosa]
- Generate SELRANGE for potentially unreachable code (#2625) (#2754) [Pierre-Henri Horrein]
- For --flatten, override inlining of public and no_inline modules (#2761) [James Hanlon]
- Fix little endian interface pin swizzling (#2475). [Don Owen]
- Fix range inheritance on port without data type (#2753). [Embedded Go]
- Fix TIMESCALE warnings on primitives (#2763). [Xuanqi]
- Fix to exclude strings from toggle coverage (#2766) (#2767) [Paul Wright]
- Fix $fread extra semicolon inside statements. [Leendert van Doorn]
- Fix class extends with VM_PARALLEL_BUILDS (#2775). [Iru Cai]
- Fix shifts by > 32 bit values (#2785). [qrq992]
- Fix examples not flushing vcd (#2787). [Richard E George]
- Fix little endian packed array pattern assignment (#2795). [Àlex Torregrosa]
Major:
- Many VPI changes for IEEE compatibility, which may alter behavior from previous releases.
- Support randomize() class method and rand (#2607). [Krzysztof Bieganski, Antmicro Ltd]
Minor:
- Support $cast and new CASTCONST warning.
- Add --top option as alias of --top-module.
- Add LATCH and NOLATCH warnings (#1609) (#2740). [Julien Margetts]
- Remove Unix::Processors internal test dependency.
- Report UNUSED on parameters, localparam and genvars (#2627). [Charles Eric LaForest]
- Add error on real to non-real output pins (#2690). [Peter Monsson]
- Support package imports before parameters in interfaces (#2714). [James Hanlon]
- Support --sanitize in internal tests (#2705). [Yutetsu TAKATSUKASA]
- Fix passing parameter type instantiations by position number.
- Fix DPI open array handling issues.
- Fix error when dotted refers to missing module (#2095). [Alexander Grobman]
- Fix little endian packed array counting (#2499). [phantom-killua]
- Fix showing reference locations for BLKANDNBLK (#2170). [Yuri Victorovich]
- Fix genblk naming to match IEEE (#2686). [tinshark]
- Fix VPI memory word indexing (#2695). [Marlon James]
- Fix vpiLeftRange on little-endian memories (#2696). [Marlon James]
- Fix VPI module tree (#2704). [Todd Strader]
- Fix vpi_release_handle to be called implicitly per IEEE (#2706).
- Fix to allow inheriting 'VerilatedVcdFile' class. (#2720) [HyungKi Jeong]
- Fix $urandom_range maximum value (#2723). [Nandu Raj]
- Fix tracing empty sc module (#2729).
- Fix generate for unrolling to be signed (#2730). [yanx21]
- Fix to emit timescale in hierarchical blocks (#2735). [Yutetsu TAKATSUKASA]
- Fix to ignore coverage on real ports (#2741) (#2745). [Paul Wright]
Major:
- Change -sv option to select 1800-2017 instead of 1800-2005.
Minor:
- Check for proper 'local' and 'protected' (#2228).
- Support $random and $urandom seeds.
- Support $monitor and $strobe.
- Support complex function arguments.
- Support 'super'.
- Support 'with item.index'.
- Fix the default GNU Make executable name on FreeBSD (#2553). [Yuri Victorovich]
- Fix trace signal names getting hashed (#2643). [Barbara Gigerl]
- Fix unpacked array parameters near functions (#2639). [Anderson Ignacio da Silva]
- Fix access to non-overridden base class variable (#2654). [Tobias Rosenkranz]
Minor:
- Support queue and associative array 'with' statements (#2616).
- Support queue slicing (#2326).
- Support associative array pattern assignments and defaults.
- Support static methods and typedefs in classes (#2615). [Krzysztof Bieganski, Antmicro Ltd]
- Add error on typedef referencing self (#2539). [Cody Piersall]
- With --debug, turn off address space layout randomization.
- Fix iteration over mutating list bug in VPI (#2588). [Kaleb Barrett]
- Fix cast width propagation (#2597). [flex-liu]
- Fix return from callValueCbs (#2589) (#2605). [Marlon James]
- Fix WIDTH warnings on comparisons with nullptr (#2602). [Rupert Swarbrick]
- Fix fault when $fgets, $sscanf, etc used with string (#2604). [Yutetsu TAKATSUKASA]
- Fix WIFEXITED missing from MinGW/MSYS2 (#2609). [Jean Berniolles]
- Fix queue poping wrong value when otherwise unused (#2512). [nanduraj1]
- Fix arrays of modport interfaces (#2614). [Thierry Tambe]
- Fix split_var internal error (#2640) (#2641). [Yutetsu TAKATSUKASA]
Minor:
- Support const object new() assignments.
- Support # as a comment in -f files (#2497). [phantom-killua]
- Support 'this' (#2585). [Rafal Kapuscik]
- Support defines for FST tracing (#2592). [Markus Krause]
- Support non-overlapping implication inside properties (#1292). [Peter Monsson]
- Fix timescale with --hierarchical (#2554). [Yutetsu TAKATSUKASA]
- Fix cmake build with --hierarchical (#2560). [Yutetsu TAKATSUKASA]
- Fix -G dropping public indication (#2561). [Andrew Goessling]
- Fix $urandom_range passed variable (#2563). [nanduraj1]
- Fix method calls to package class functions (#2565). [Peter Monsson]
- Fix class wide member display (#2567). [Nandu Raj P]
- Fix hierarchical references inside function (#2267) (#2572). [James Pallister]
- Fix flushCall for backward compatibility (#2580). [chenguokai]
- Fix preprocessor stringify of undefined macro. [Martin Whitaker]
Major:
- C++11 or newer compilers are now required.
- SystemC 2.3.0 or newer (SYSTEMC_VERSION >= 20111121) is now required.
- Support hierarchical Verilation (#2206). [Yutetsu TAKATSUKASA]
Minor:
- Support (with limitations) class extern, class extends, virtual class.
- Support $urandom, $urandom_range without stability.
- Support assume property. [Peter Monsson]
- Support non-overlapping implication inside properties (#1292). [Peter Monsson]
- Fix false DECLFILENAME on black-boxed modules (#2430). [Philipp Wagner]
- Fix naming of "id : begin" blocks.
- Fix class constructor error on assignments to const.
- Fix splitting eval functions with --output-split-cfuncs (#2368). [Geza Lore]
- Fix queues as class members (#2525). [nanduraj1]
Announcement:
- Version 4.040 is planned to be the final version that will support pre-C++11 compilers. Please move to C++11 or newer compilers.
Minor:
- Fix arrayed interfaces, broke in 4.038 (#2468). [Josh Redford]
- Support $stable, $rose and $fell. (#2148) (#2501) [Peter Monsson]
- Support simple function localparams (#2461). [James Hanlon]
- Miscellaneous parsing error changes towards UVM support.
- Fix arrayed interfaces (#2469). [Josh Redford]
- Fix protect lib VCS warning. (#2479) [Julien Margetts]
- Fix combining different-width parameters (#2484). [abirkmanis]
- Fix protect-lib without sequential logic (#2492). [Yutetsu TAKATSUKASA]
- Fix V3Unknown from running with flat XML output (#2494). [James Hanlon]
- Fix non-32 bit conversion to float (#2495). [dsvf]
- Fix casting non-self-determined subexpressions (#2493). [phantom-killua]
- Fix SystemC net names (#2500). [Edgar E. Iglesias]
- Fix build with Bison 3.7 and newer (#2505). [Rupert Swarbrick]
- Fix slice of unpacked array (#2506) (#2507). [Yutetsu TAKATSUKASA]
Announcement:
- Versions 4.038 and 4.040 are planned to be the final versions that will support pre-C++11 compilers. Please move to C++11 or newer compilers.
Minor:
- Support VPI access to parameters and localparam. [Ludwig Rogiers]
- Support parsing (not elaboration, yet) of UVM.
- Add new UNSUPPORTED error code to replace most previous Unsupported: messages.
- With --bbox-unsup continue parsing on many (not all) UVM constructs.
- Support for-loop increments with commas.
- Support $swrite with arbitrary arguments.
- Support $writememb (#2450). [Fan Shupei]
- Fix OS X, Free BSD, and -m32 portability issues. [Geza Lore]
- Fix to flush FST trace on termination due to $stop or assertion failure.
- Fix part select error when multipling by power-of-two (#2413). [Conor McCullough]
- Fix division exception (#2460) [Kuoping Hsu]
Major:
- OPT_FAST is now -Os by default. See the BENCHMARKING & OPTIMIZATION part of the manual if you experience issues with compilation speed.
- --output-split is now on by default. VM_PARALLEL_BUILDS is set by default iff the --output-split caused an actual file split to occur. --output-split-cfuncs and --output-split-ctrace now default to the value of --output-split. These changes should improve build times of medium and large designs with default options. User makefiles may require changes.
Minor:
- Configure now enables SystemC if it is installed as a system headers, e.g. with 'apt-get install systemc-dev'.
- Add --waiver-output flag that writes a verilator config file (.vlt) with waivers to the warnings emitted during a Verilator run.
- Support verilator_coverage --write-info for lcov HTML reports.
- Line Coverage now tracks all statement lines, not just branch lines.
- The run-time library is now compiled with -Os by default. (#2369, #2373)
- Support multi channel descriptor I/O (#2190) [Stephen Henry]
- Support $countbits. (#2287) [Yossi Nivin]
- Support
$isunbounded and parameter $ . (#2104) - Support unpacked array .sum and .product.
- Support prefix/postfix increment/decrement. (#2223) [Maciej Sobkowski]
- Fix FST tracing of little bit endian signals. [Geza Lore]
- Fix +: and -: on unpacked arrays. (#2304) [engr248]
- Fix $isunknown with constant Z's.
- Fix queues and dynamic array wide ops. (#2352) [Vassilis Papaefstathiou]
Major:
- Support simplistic classes with many restrictions, see manual. (#377)
- Support IEEE time units and time precisions. (#234) Includes `timescale, $printtimescale, $timeformat. VL_TIME_MULTIPLIER, VL_TIME_PRECISION, VL_TIME_UNIT have been removed and the time precision must now match the SystemC time precision. To get closer behavior to older versions, use e.g. --timescale-override "1ps/1ps".
- Add --build to call make automatically. (#2249) [Yutetsu TAKATSUKASA]
- Configuring with ccache present now defaults to using it; see OBJCACHE.
- Fix DPI import/export to be standard compliant. (#2236) [Geza Lore]
- Add --trace-threads for general multithreaded tracing. (#2269) [Geza Lore]
Minor:
- Add --flatten for use with --xml-only. (#2270) [James Hanlon]
- Greatly improve FST/VCD dump performance (#2244) (#2246) (#2250) (#2257) [Geza Lore]
- Support $ferror, and $fflush without arguments. (#1638)
- Support event data type (with some restrictions).
- Support $root. (#2150) [Keyi Zhang]
- Add error if use SystemC 2.2 and earlier (pre-2011) as is deprecated.
- Add support of --trace-structs for CMake (#2986). [Martin Schmidt]
- Fix arrayed instances connecting to slices. (#2263) [Don/engr248]
- Fix error on unpacked connecting to packed. (#2288) [Joseph Shaker]
- Fix logical not optimization with empty begin. (#2291) [Baltazar Ortiz]
- Fix reduction OR on wide data, broke in v4.026. (#2300) [Jack Koenig]
- Fix clock enables with bit-extends. (#2299) [Marco Widmer]
- Fix MacOs Homebrew by removing default LIBS. (#2298) [Ryan Clarke]
Minor:
- Add column numbers to errors and warnings.
- Add GCC 9-style line number prefix when showing source text for errors.
- Add setting VM_PARALLEL_BUILDS=1 when using --output-split. (#2185)
- Change --quiet-exit to also suppress 'Exiting due to N errors'.
- Suppress REALCVT for whole real numbers.
- Support split_var in vlt files. (#2219) [Marco Widmer]
- Fix parameter type redeclaring a type. (#2195) [hdzhangdoc]
- Fix VCD open with empty filename. (#2198) [Julius Baxter]
- Fix packages as enum base types. (#2202) [Driss Hafdi]
- Fix duplicate typedefs in generate for. (#2205) [hdzhangdoc]
- Fix MinW portability. (#2114) [Sean Cross]
- Fix assertions with unique case inside. (#2199) [hdzhangdoc]
- Fix implicit conversion of floats to wide integers.
Major:
- Add split_var metacomment to assist UNOPTFLAT fixes. (#2066) [Yutetsu TAKATSUKASA]
- Support $dumpfile and $dumpvars. (#2126) [Alexander Grobman]
- Support dynamic arrays. (#379)
Minor:
- Add +verilator+noassert flag to disable assertion checking. [Tobias Wölfel]
- Add check for assertOn for asserts. (#2162) [Tobias Wölfel]
- Add --structs-packed for forward compatibility.
- Support $displayb/o/h, $writeb/o/h, etc. (#1637)
- Use gcc -Os in examples instead of -O2 for better average performance.
- Fix genblk naming with directly nested generate blocks. (#2176) [Alexander Grobman]
- Fix undeclared VL_SHIFTR_WWQ. (#2114) [Alex Solomatnikov]
Major:
- Support attributes (public, isolate_assignments, etc.) in configuration files.
- Add -match to lint_off to waive warnings. [Philipp Wagner]
Minor:
- Link Verilator binary partially statically. (#2146) [Geza Lore]
- Verilation speed improvements (#2133) (#2138) [Geza Lore]
- Support libgoogle-perftools-dev's libtcmalloc if available. (#2137) [Geza Lore]
- Support $readmem/$writemem with assoc arrarys. (#2100) [agrobman]
- Support type(expression) operator and $typename. (#1650)
- Support left justified $display. (#2101) [Pieter Kapsenberg]
- Support string character access via indexing.
- Support enum.next(k) with constant k > 1. (#2125) [Tobias Rosenkranz]
- Support parameter access from arrays of interfaces. (#2155) [Todd Strader]
- Add parameter values in XML. #2110. [Pieter Kapsenberg]
- Add loc column location in XML (replaces fl). (#2122) [Pieter Kapsenberg]
- Add error on misused define. [Topa Tota]
- Add parameter to set maximum signal width. (#2082) [Øyvind Harboe]
- Add warning on genvar in normal for loop. (#2143) [Yuri Victorovich]
- Fix VPI scope naming for public modules. [Nandu Raj]
- Fix FST tracing of enums inside structs. [fsiegle]
- Fix WIDTH warning on </<= of narrower value. (#2141) [agrobman]
- Fix OpenSolaris issues. (#2154) [brancoliticus]
- Fix gated clocks under --protect-lib. (#2169) [Todd Strader]
Major:
- Docker images are now available for Verilator releases.
Minor:
- Support bounded queues.
- Support non-overlapping implication operator in assertions. (#2069) [Peter Monsson]
- Support string compare, ato*, etc methods. (#1606) [Yutetsu TAKATSUKASA]
- Support immediate cover statements.
- Ignore `uselib to end-of-line. (#1634) [Frederic Antonin]
- Update FST trace API for better performance.
- Add vpiTimeUnit and allow to specify time as string. (#1636) [Stefan Wallentowitz]
- Add error when `resetall inside module (IEEE 2017-22.3).
- Add cleaner error on version control conflicts in sources.
- Fix little endian cell ranges. (#1631) [Julien Margetts]
- Fix queue issues (#1641) (#1643) [Peter Monsson, Stefan Wallentowitz]
- Fix strcasecmp for windows. (#1651) [Kuba Ober]
- Fix disable iff in assertions. Closes #1404. [Peter Monsson]
- Fix huge case statement performance. Closes #1644. [Julien Margetts]
- Fix tracing -1 index arrays. Closes #2090. [Yutetsu Takatsukasa]
- Fix expand optimization slowing --lint-only. Closes #2091. [Thomas Watts]
- Fix %{number}s with strings. #2093. [agrobman]
- Fix shebang breaking some shells. Closes #2067. [zdave]
Major:
- Support associative arrays (excluding [*] and pattern assignments). (#544)
- Support queues (excluding {} notation and pattern assignments). (#545)
Minor:
- Add +verilator+error+limit to see more assertion errors. [Peter Monsson]
- Support string.toupper and string.tolower.
- Support $rewind and $ungetc.
- Support shortreal as real, with a SHORTREAL warning.
- Add -Wpedantic and -Wno-context for compliance testing.
- Add error on redefining preprocessor directives. [Piotr Binkowski]
- Support $value$plusargs float and shorts. (#1592) (#1619) [Garrett Smith]
- Fix gate lvalue optimization error. (#831) [Jonathon Donaldson, Driss Hafdi]
- Fix color assertion on empty if. (#1604) [Andrew Holme]
- Fix for loop missing initializer. (#1605) [Andrew Holme]
- Fix hang on concat error. (#1608) [Bogdan Vukobratovic]
- Fix VPI timed callbacks to be one-shot, pull5. [Matthew Ballance]
- Fix // in filenames. (#1610) [Peter Nelson]
- Fix $display("%p") to be closer to IEEE.
- Fix labels on functions with returns. (#1614) [Mitch Hayenga]
- Fix false unused message on __Vemumtab. (#2061) [Tobias Rosenkranz]
- Fix assertion on dotted parameter arrayed function. (#1620) [Rich Porter]
- Fix interface reference tracing. (#1595) [Todd Strader]
- Fix error on unpacked concatenations. (#1627) [Driss Hafdi]
Major:
- Add --protect-lib. (#1490) [Todd Strader]
- Add cmake support. (#1363) [Patrick Stewart]
Minor:
- Examples have been renamed.
- Add --protect-ids to obscure information in objects. (#1521) [Todd Strader]
- Add --trace-coverage.
- Add --xml-output.
- Support multithreading on Windows. [Patrick Stewart]
- Suppress 'command failed' on normal errors.
- Support some unpacked arrays in parameters. (#1315) [Marshal Qiao]
- Add interface port visibility in traces. (#1594) [Todd Strader]
- Increase case duplicate/incomplete to 16 bit tables. (#1545) [Yossi Nivin]
- Support quoted arguments in -f files. (#1535) [Yves Mathieu]
- Optimize modulus by power-of-two constants, and masked conditionals.
- Fix detecting missing reg types. (#1570) [Jacko Dirks]
- Fix multithreaded yield behavior when no work. [Patrick Stewart]
- Fix bad-syntax crashes. (#1548, #1550-#1553, #1557-#1560, #1563, #1573-#1577, #1579, #1582-#1591) [Eric Rippey]
- Fix false CMPCONST/UNSIGNED warnings on "inside". (#1581) [Mitch Hayenga]
Minor:
- Add --public-flat-rw. (#1511) [Stefan Wallentowitz]
- Support $fseek, $ftell, $frewind. (#1496) [Howard Su]
- Support vpiModule. (#1469) [Stefan Wallentowitz]
- Make Syms file honor --output-split-cfuncs. (#1499) [Todd Strader]
- Fix make test with no VERILATOR_ROOT. (#1494) [Ahmed El-Mahmoudy]
- Fix error on multidimensional cells. (#1505) [Anderson Ignacio Da Silva]
- Fix config_rev revision detection on old versions.
- Fix false warning on backward indexing. (#1507) [Hao Shi]
- Fix vpiType accessor. (#1509) (#1510) [Stefan Wallentowitz]
- Fix ugly error on interface misuse. (#1525) [Bogdan Vukobratovic]
- Fix misc bad-syntax crashes. (#1529) (#1530) (#1531) (#1532) (#1533) [Eric Rippey]
- Fix case statements with strings. (#1536) [Philipp Wagner]
- Fix some coverage lost when multithreaded. (#2151)
Major:
- When showing an error, show source code and offer suggestions of replacements.
- When showing an error, show the instance location. (#1305) [Todd Strader]
Minor:
- Add --rr. (#1481) [Todd Strader]
- Change MULTITOP to warning to help linting, see manual.
- Add XSim support to driver.pl. (#1493) [Todd Strader]
- Add --dpi-hdr-only. (#1491) [Todd Strader]
- Show included-from filenames in warnings. (#1439) [Todd Strader]
- Fix elaboration time errors. (#1429) [Udi Finkelstein]
- Fix not reporting some duplicate signals/ports. (#1462) [Peter Gerst]
- Fix not in array context on non-power-of-two slices. (#2027) [Yu Sheng Lin]
- Fix system compile flags injection. [Gianfranco Costamagna]
- Fix enum values not being sized based on parent. (#1442) [Dan Petrisko]
- Fix internal error on gate optimization of assign. (#1475) [Oyvind Harboe]
Minor:
- Add --quiet-exit. (#1436) [Todd Strader]
- Error continuation lines no longer have %Error prefix.
- Support logical equivalence operator <->.
- Support VerilatedFstC set_time_unit. (#1433) [Pieter Kapsenberg]
- Support deferred assertions. (#1449) [Charles Eddleston]
- Mark infrequently called functions with GCC cold attribute.
- Fix sign-compare warning in verilated.cpp. (#1437) [Sergey Kvachonok]
- Fix fault on $realtime with %t. (#1443) [Julien Margetts]
- Fix $display with string without %s. (#1441) [Denis Rystsov]
- Fix parameter function string returns. (#1441) [Denis Rystsov]
- Fix invalid XML output due to special chars. (#1444) [Kanad Kanhere]
- Fix performance when mulithreaded on 1 CPU. (#1455) [Stefan Wallentowitz]
- Fix type and real parameter issues (#1427) (#1456) (#1458) [Todd Strader]
- Fix build error on MinGW. (#1460) [Richard Myers]
- Fix not reporting some duplicate signals. (#1462) [Peter Gerst]
- Fix --savable invalid C++ on packed arrays. (#1465) [Alex Chadwick]
- Fix constant function return of function var. (#1467) [Roman Popov]
Minor:
- Add --trace-fst-thread.
- Support '#' comments in $readmem. (#1411) [Frédéric Requin]
- Support "'dx" constants. (#1423) [Udi Finkelstein]
- For FST tracing use LZ4 compression. [Tony Bybell]
- Add error when use parameters without value. (#1424) [Peter Gerst]
- Auto-extend and WIDTH warn on unsized X/Zs. (#1423) [Udi Finkelstein]
- Fix missing VL_SHIFTL errors. (#1412) (#1415) [Larry Lee]
- Fix MinGW GCC 6 printf formats. (#1413) [Sergey Kvachonok]
- Fix test problems when missing fst2vcd. (#1417) [Todd Strader]
- Fix GTKWave register warning. (#1421) [Pieter Kapsenberg]
- Fix FST enums not displaying. (#1426) [Danilo Ramos]
- Fix table compile error with multiinterfaces. (#1431) [Bogdan Vukobratovic]
Minor:
- Add +verilator+seed. (#1396) [Stan Sokorac]
- Support $fread. [Leendert van Doorn]
- Support void' cast on functions called as tasks. (#1383) [Al Grant]
- Add IGNOREDRETURN warning. (#1383)
- Report PORTSHORT errors on concat constants. (#1400) [Will Korteland]
- Fix VERILATOR_GDB being ignored. (#2017) [Yu Sheng Lin]
- Fix $value$plus$args missing verilated_heavy.h. [Yi-Chung Chen]
- Fix MSVC compile error. (#1406) [Benjamin Gartner]
- Fix maintainer test when no Parallel::Forker. (#1977) [Enzo Chi]
- Fix +1364-1995ext flags applying too late. (#1384) [Al Grant]
Minor:
- Removed --trace-lxt2, use --trace-fst instead.
- For --xml, add additional information. (#1372) [Jonathan Kimmitt]
- Add circular typedef error. (#1388) [Al Grant]
- Add unsupported for loops error. (#1986) [Yu Sheng Lin]
- Fix FST tracing of wide arrays. (#1376) [Aleksander Osman]
- Fix error when pattern assignment has too few elements. (#1378) [Viktor Tomov]
- Fix error when no modules in $unit. (#1381) [Al Grant]
- Fix missing too many digits warning. (#1380) [Jonathan Kimmitt]
- Fix uninitialized data in verFiles and unroller. (#1385) (#1386) [Al Grant]
- Fix internal error on xrefs into unrolled functions. (#1387) [Al Grant]
- Fix DPI export void compiler error. (#1391) [Stan Sokorac]
Minor:
- Support "ref" and "const ref" pins and functions. (#1360) [Jake Longo]
- In --xml-only show the original unmodified names, and add module_files and cells similar to Verilog-Perl, msg2719. [Kanad Kanhere]
- Add CONTASSREG error on continuous assignments to regs. (#1369) [Peter Gerst]
- Add PROCASSWIRE error on behavioral assignments to wires, msg2737. [Neil Turton]
- Add IMPORTSTAR warning on import::* inside $unit scope.
- Fix --trace-lxt2 compile error on MinGW. (#1990) [HyungKi Jeong]
- Fix hang on bad pattern keys. (#1364) [Matt Myers]
- Fix crash due to cygwin bug in getline. (#1349) [Affe Mao]
- Fix __Slow files getting compiled with OPT_FAST. (#1370) [Thomas Watts]
Minor:
- Add --pp-comments. (#1988) [Robert Henry]
- Add --dump-defines.
- For --trace-fst, save enum decoding information. (#1358) [Sergi Granell] (To visualize enumeration data you must use GTKwave 3.3.95 or newer.)
- For --trace-fst, combine hier information into FST. [Tony Bybell]
- Fix --trace-lxt2 compile error on MinGW, msg2667. [HyungKi Jeong]
- Fix Windows .exe not found. (#1361) [Patrick Stewart]
Major:
- Add GTKWave FST native tracing. (#1356) [Sergi Granell] (Verilator developers need to pull the latest vcddiff.)
Minor:
- Support $past. [Dan Gisselquist]
- Support restrict. (#1350) [Clifford Wolf]
- Rename include/lxt2 to include/gtkwave.
- Fix replication of 64-bit signal change detects.
- Fix Mac OSX 10.13.6 / LLVM 9.1 compile issues. (#1348) [Kevin Kiningham]
- Fix MinGW compile issues. (#1979) [HyungKi Jeong]
Major:
- This is a major release. Any patches may require major rework to apply. [Thanks everyone]
- Add multithreaded model generation.
- Add runtime arguments.
- Add GTKWave LXT2 native tracing. (#1333) [Yu Sheng Lin]
- Note $random has new algorithm; results may vary vs. previous versions.
Minor:
- Better optimize large always block splitting. (#1244) [John Coiner]
- Add new reloop optimization for repetitive assignment compression.
- Support string.atoi and similar methods. (#1289) [Joel Holdsworth]
- Fix internals to be C++ null-pointer-check clean.
- Fix internals to avoid 'using namespace std'.
- Fix Verilation performance issues. (#1316) [John Coiner]
- Fix clocker attributes to not propagate on concats. [John Coiner]
- Fix first clock edge and --x-initial-edge. (#1327) [Rupert Swarbrick]
- Fix compile error on tracing of string arrays. (#1338) [Iztok Jeras]
- Fix number parsing with newline after radix. (#1340) [George Cuan]
- Fix string ?: conditional type resolution. (#1345) [Iztok Jeras]
- Fix duplicate symbol error on generate tri. (#1347) [Tomas Dzetkulic]
Minor:
- Add OBJCACHE envvar support to examples and generated Makefiles.
- Change MODDUP errors to warnings. (#1969) [Marshal Qiao]
- Fix define argument stringification (`"), broke since 3.914. [Joe DErrico]
- Fix to ignore Unicode UTF-8 BOM sequences. (#1967) [HyungKi Jeong]
- Fix std:: build error. (#1322)
- Fix function inlining inside certain while loops. (#1330) [Julien Margetts]
Minor:
- Renamed --profile-cfuncs to --prof-cfuncs.
- Report interface ports connected to wrong interface. (#1294) [Todd Strader]
- When tracing, use scalars on single bit arrays to appease vcddiff.
- Fix parsing "output signed" in V2K port list, msg2540. [James Jung]
- Fix parsing error on bad missing #. (#1308) [Dan Kirkham]
- Fix $clog2 to be in verilog 2005. (#1319) [James Hutchinson]
Major:
- Support IEEE 1800-2017 as default language.
Minor:
- Support trig functions ($sin() etc). (#1281) [Patrick Stewart]
- Support calling system functions as tasks. (#1285) [Joel Holdsworth]
- Support assert properties. (#785) (#1290) [John Coiner, et al]
- Support $writememh. [John Coiner]
- Add --no-debug-leak to reduce memory use under debug. [John Coiner]
- Fix severe runtime performance bug in certain foreach loops. [John Coiner]
- On convergence errors, show activity. [John Coiner]
- Fix GCC 8.0 issues. (#1273)
- Fix pullup/pulldowns on bit selects. (#1274) [Rob Stoddard]
- Fix verilator_coverage --annotate-min. (#1284) [Tymoteusz Blazejczyk]
- Fix quoting of quoted arguments. [John Coiner]
Announcement:
- Moving forward, use the git "stable" branch to track the latest release, and git "v#.###" tags for specific releases.
Minor:
- Support 'assume' similar to 'assert'. (#1269) [Dan Gisselquist]
- Remove c++filt. (#1265) [Stefan Wallentowitz]
- Fix tracing example file output. (#1268) [Enzo Chi]
- Fix gate optimization out of memory, add --gate-stmts. (#1260) [Alex Solomatnikov]
- Fix compile error on public real parameters by suppressing. (#1261) [Alex Solomatnikov]
- Fix input-only tristate comparisons. (#1267) [Alexis G]
- Fix missing edge type in xml output. (#1955) [Alexis G]
- Fix compile error with --public and interface bind. (#1264) [Alexis G]
Minor:
- Workaround GCC/clang bug with huge compile times. (#1248)
- Support DPI open arrays. (#909) (#1245) [David Pierce, Victor Besyakov]
- Add INFINITELOOP warning. (#1254) [Alex Solomatnikov]
- Support > 64 bit decimal $display.
- Support DPI time and svLogicVal. [Victor Besyakov] Note older version incorrectly assumed svBitVal even for logicals.
- Support string len() method. [Victor Besyakov]
- Add error if always_comb has sensitivity list. [Arjen Roodselaar]
- Fix SystemC 2.3.2 compile error. (#1251) [Tymoteusz Blazejczyk]
- Fix modport outputs being treated as inputs. (#1246) [Jeff Bush]
- Fix false ALWCOMBORDER on interface references. (#1247) [Josh Redford]
- Fix constant propagation across DPI imports of inout strings. [Victor Besyakov]
- Fix resolving inline nested interface names. (#1250) [Arjen Roodselaar]
- Fix GCC false warning on array bounds. (#2386)
Minor:
- Support self-recursive modules. (#659) [Sean Moore, et al]
- Support $error/$warning in elaboration time blocks.
- Support $size/$bits/etc on type references.
- Add error when driving input-only modport. (#1110) [Trevor Elbourne]
- Add BSSPACE and COLONPLUS lint warnings.
- Detect MSB overflow when under VL_DEBUG. (#1238) [Junyi Xi]
- Add data types to --xml. [Rui Terra]
- Fix partial slicing with pattern assignments. (#991) [Johan Bjork]
- Fix false unused warning on interfaces. (#1241) [Laurens van Dam]
- Fix error on "unique case" with no cases.
- Fix MacOS portability. (#1232) [Jeff Bush]
Major:
- Add new examples/ directory with appropriate examples. This replaces the old test_c and test_sc directories.
Minor:
- Add --getenv option for simplifying Makefiles.
- Add --x-initial option for specifying initial value assignment behavior.
- Add --no-relative-cfuncs and related default optimization. (#1224) [John Coiner]
- Add /verilator tag/ for XML extraction applications. [Chris Randall]
- The internal test_verilated test directory is moved to be part of test_regress.
- The experimental VL_THREADED setting (only, not normal mode) now requires C++11.
- Fix over-aggressive inlining. (#1223) [John Coiner]
- Fix Ubuntu 17.10 issues. (#1223 partial). [John Coiner]
- Fix compiler warning when WIDTH warning ignored on large compare.
- Fix memory leak in VerilatedVcd dumps. (#1222 partial) [Shareef Jalloq]
- Fix unnecessary Vdly variables. (#1224 partial) [John Coiner]
- Fix conditional slices and add related optimizations.
- Fix `` expansion of `defines. (#1225) (#1227) (#1228) [Odd Magne Reitan]
- Fix -E duplicating output. (#1226) [Odd Magne Reitan]
- Fix float-conversion warning. (#1229) [Robert Henry]
- Fix MacOS portability. (#1230) (#1231) [Jeff Bush]
Major:
- Verilated headers no longer "use namespace std;" User's code without "std::" prefixes may need "use namespace std;" to compile.
Minor:
- Support or/and/xor array intrinsic methods. (#1210) [Michael Popoloski]
- Support package export. (#1217) [Usuario Eda]
- Support module port parameters without defaults. (#1213) [Michael Popoloski]
- Add performance information to --stats file.
- Simplify VL_CONST_W macro generation for faster compiles.
- Optimize improvements for Shift-And, and replication constructs.
- Fix ordering of arrayed cell wide connections. (#1202 partial) [Michael Popoloski]
- Fix LITENDIAN warning on arrayed cells. (#1202) [Michael Popoloski]
- Fix enum ranges without colons. (#1204) [Michael Popoloski]
- Fix GCC noreturn compile error. (#1209) [Michael Popoloski]
- Fix constant function default parameters. (#1211) [Michael Popoloski]
- Fix non-colon array of interface modports. (#1212) [Michael Popoloski]
- Fix .name connections on interfaces. (#1214) [Michael Popoloski]
- Fix wide array indices causing compile error.
Major:
- SystemPerl mode (-sp-deprecated) has been removed.
Minor:
- Update keyword warnings to include C++11 and others.
Minor:
- Support x in $readmem. (#1180) [Arthur Kahlich]
- Support packed struct DPI imports. (#1190) [Rob Stoddard]
- Fix GCC 6 warnings.
- Fix compile error on unused VL_VALUEPLUSARGS_IW. (#1181) [Thomas J Whatson]
- Fix undefined VL_POW_WWI. [Clifford Wolf]
- Fix internal error on unconnected inouts. (#1187) [Rob Stoddard]
Minor:
- Support set_time_unit/set_time_precision in C traces. (#1937)
- Fix extract of packed array with non-zero LSB. (#1172) [James Pallister]
- Fix shifts by more than 32-bit numbers. (#1174) [Clifford Wolf]
- Fix power operator on wide constants. (#761) [Clifford Wolf]
- Fix .* on interface pins. (#1176) [Maciej Piechotka]
Minor:
- Fix non-cutable ordering loops on clock arrays. (#1009) [Todd Strader]
- Support ports of array of reals. (#1154) [J Briquet]
- Support arrayed parameter overrides. (#1153) [John Stevenson]
- Support $value$plusargs with variables. (#1165) [Wesley Terpstra]
- Support modport access to un-modport objects. (#1161) [Todd Strader]
- Add stack trace when can't optimize function. (#1158) [Todd Strader]
- Add warning on mis-sized literal. (#1156) [Todd Strader]
- Fix interface functions returning wrong parameters. (#996) [Todd Strader]
- Fix non-arrayed cells with interface arrays. (#1153) [John Stevenson]
- Fix --assert with complex case statements. (#1164) [Enzo Chi]
Major:
- Add -FI option to force includes. (#1916) [Amir Gonnen]
- Add --relative-includes. [Rob Stoddard]
Minor:
- Add error on duplicate pattern assignments. (#1145) [Johan Bjork]
- Fix error on improperly widthed default function. (#984) [Todd Strader]
- Fix 2009 localparam syntax, msg2139. [Galen Seitz]
- Fix ugly interface-to-non-interface errors. (#1112) [Johan Bjork]
- Fix LDFLAGS and CFLAGS not preserving order. (#1130) [Olof Kindgren]
- Fix internal error on initializing parameter array. (#1131) [Jie Xu]
- Fix internal error on interface arrays. (#1135) [John Stevenson]
- Fix calling sformatf to display, and elab $displays. (#1139) [Johan Bjork]
- Fix realpath compile issue on MSVC++. (#1141) [Miodrag Milanovic]
- Fix missing error on interface size mismatch. (#1143) [Johan Bjork]
- Fix error on parameters with dotted references. (#1146) [Johan Bjork]
- Fix wreal not handling continuous assign. (#1150) [J Briquet]
- Fix nested structure parameter selects. (#1150) [J Briquet]
Major:
- Internal code changes for improved compatibility and performance.
Minor:
- Support old-style $display($time). (#467) [John Demme]
- With --bbox-unsup, suppress desassign and mixed edges. (#1120) [Galen Seitz]
- Fix parsing sensitivity with &&. (#934) [Luke Yang]
- Fix internal error on double-for loop unrolling. (#1044) [Jan Egil Ruud]
- Fix internal error on unique casez with --assert. (#1117) [Enzo Chi]
- Fix bad code when tracing array of structs. (#1122) [Andrew Bardsley]
Minor:
- Honor --output-split on coverage constructors. (#1098) [Johan Bjork]
- Fix various issues when making outside of the kit.
- Fix flex 2.6.2 bug. (#1103) [Sergey Kvachonok]
- Fix error on bad interface name. (#1097) [Todd Strader]
- Fix error on referencing variable in parent. (#1099) [Ian Thompson]
- Fix type parameters with low optimization. (#1101) [Stefan Wallentowitz]
Major:
- Support foreach. (#1078) [Xuan Guo]
Minor:
- Add --no-decoration to remove output comments, msg2015. [Frédéric Requin]
- If VM_PARALLEL_BUILDS=1, use OPT_FAST and OPT_SLOW. [Frédéric Requin] Set VM_DEFAULT_RULES=0 for old behavior.
- Add error on DPI functions > 32 bits. (#1898) [Elliot Mednick]
- Improve Verilation performance on internal strings. (#1896) [Johan Bjork]
- Improve Verilation performance on trace duplicates. (#1090) [Johan Bjork]
- Fix SystemC compiles with VPI. (#1081) [Arthur Kahlich]
- Fix error on wide numbers that represent shifts, msg1991. (#1088) [Mandy Xu]
Minor:
- Fix enum values of 11-16 bits wide using .next/.prev. (#1062) [Brian Flachs]
- Fix false warnings on non-power-2 enums using .next/.prev.
- Fix comparison of unpacked arrays. (#1071) [Andrew Bardsley]
- Fix compiler warning in GCC 6. [David Horton]
Major:
- Support parameter type. (#376) [Alan Hunter, et al]
- Support command-line -G/+pvalue param overrides. (#1045) [Stefan Wallentowitz]
- Add --l2-name option for controlling "v" naming.
- The default l2 scope name is now the same as the top-level module. (#1050) Use "--l2-name v" for the historical behavior.
Minor:
- Fix --output-split of constructors. (#1035) [Johan Bjork]
- Fix removal of empty packages, modules and cells. (#1034) [Johan Bjork]
- Fix core dump on Arch Linux/GCC 6.1.1. (#1058) [Jannis Harder]
- Fix $value$plusargs to string. (#1880) [Frédéric Requin]
Minor:
- Internal Verilation-time performance enhancements. (#1021) [Johan Bjork]
- Support inlining interfaces. (#1018) [Johan Bjork]
- Support SV strings to readmemh. (#1040) [Stefan Wallentowitz]
- Fix unrolling complicated for-loop bounds. (#677) [Johan Bjork]
- Fix stats file containing multiple unroll entries. (#1020) [Johan Bjork]
- Fix using short parameter names on negative params. (#1022) [Duraid Madina]
- Fix read-after-free error. (#1031) [Johan Bjork]
- Fix elaboration-time display warnings. (#1032) [Johan Bjork]
- Fix crash on very deep function trees. (#1028) [Jonathan Kimmitt]
- Fix slicing mix of big and little-endian. (#1033) [Geoff Barrett]
- Fix pattern assignment width propagation. (#1037) [Johan Bjork]
Minor:
- Support display %u, %v, %p, %z. (#989) [Johan Bjork]
- Fix real parameters causing bad module names. (#992) [Johan Bjork]
- Fix size-changing cast on packed struct. (#993) [Johan Bjork]
- Fix function calls on arrayed interface. (#994) [Johan Bjork]
- Fix arrayed interfaces. (#879) (#1001) [Todd Strader]
- Fix constant function assigned to packed structs. (#997) [Johan Bjork]
- Fix interface inside generate. (#998) [Johan Bjork]
- Fix $signed casts under generates. (#999) [Clifford Wolf]
- Fix genvar constant propagation. (#1003) [Johan Bjork]
- Fix parameter constant propagation from package. (#1004) [Johan Bjork]
- Fix array slicing of non-const indexes. (#1006) [Johan Bjork]
- Fix dotted generated array error. (#1005) [Jeff Bush, Johan Bjork]
- Fix error instead of warning on large concat. (#1865) [Paul Rolfe]
- Fix $bitstoreal constant propagation. (#1012) [Jonathan Kimmitt]
- Fix model restore crash. (#1013) [Jason McMullan]
- Fix arrayed instances to unpacked of same size. (#1015) [Varun Koyyalagunta]
- Fix slices of unpacked arrays with non-zero LSBs.
- Fix ternary operation with unpacked array. (#1017) [Varun Koyyalagunta].
Major:
- Add --vpi flag, and fix VPI linkage. (#969) [Arthur Kahlich]
- Support genvar indexes into arrayed cells. (#517) [Todd Strader]
- Support $sformatf. (#977) [Johan Bjork]
- Support elaboration assertions. (#973) [Johan Bjork]
- Support $display with non-format arguments. (#467) [Jamey Hicks]
Minor:
- Add VerilatedScopeNameMap for introspection. (#966) [Todd Strader]
- Ignore %l in $display. (#983) [Todd Strader]
- Fix very long module names. (#937) [Todd Strader]
- Fix internal error on dotted refs into generates. (#958) [Jie Xu]
- Fix structure parameter constant propagation. (#968) [Todd Strader]
- Fix enum constant propagation. (#970) [Todd Strader]
- Fix mis-optimizing public DPI functions. (#963) [Wei Song]
- Fix package:scope.scope variable references.
- Fix $fwrite to constant stderr/stdout. (#961) [Wei Song]
- Fix struct.enum.name method calls. (#855) [Jonathon Donaldson]
- Fix dot indexing into arrayed inferfaces. (#978) [Johan Bjork]
- Fix crash in commandArgsPlusMatch. (#987) [Jamie Iles]
- Fix error message on missing interface. (#985) [Todd Strader]
Minor:
- Add tracing_on, etc to vlt files. (#932) [Frédéric Requin]
- Support extraction of enum bits. (#951) [Jonathon Donaldson]
- Fix MinGW compiler error. (#927) (#929) [Hans Tichelaar]
- Fix .c files to be treated as .cpp. (#930) [Jonathon Donaldson]
- Fix string-to-int space conversion. (#931) [Fabrizio Ferrandi]
- Fix dpi imports inside generates. [Michael Tresidder]
- Fix rounding in trace $timescale. (#946) [Frédéric Requin]
- Fix $fopen with SV string. (#947) [Sven Stucki]
- Fix hashed error with typedef inside block. (#948) [Sven Stucki]
- Fix makefile with --coverage. (#953) [Eivind Liland]
- Fix coverage documentation. (#954) [Thomas J Whatson]
- Fix parameters with function parameter arguments. (#952) [Jie Xu]
- Fix size casts as second argument of cast item. (#950) [Jonathon Donaldson]
Minor:
- Add pkg-config .pc file. (#919) [Stefan Wallentowitz]
- Fix installing missing manpages. (#908) [Ahmed El-Mahmoudy]
- Fix sign extension in large localparams. (#910) [Mike Thyer]
- Fix core dump in sync-async warnings. (#911) [Sebastian Dressler]
- Fix truncation warning with -pins-bv. (#912) [Alfonso Martinez]
- Fix Cygwin uint32 compile. (#914) [Matthew Barr]
- Fix preprocessing stringified newline escapes. (#915) [Anton Rapp]
- Fix part-select in constant function. (#916) [Andrew Bardsley]
- Fix width extension on mis-width ports. (#918) [Patrick Maupin]
- Fix width propagation on sized casts. (#925) [Jonathon Donaldson]
- Fix MSVC++ compiler error. (#927) [Hans Tichelaar]
Minor:
- Add VerilatedVcdFile to allow real-time waveforms. (#890) [HyungKi Jeong]
- Add --clk and related optimizations. (#1840) [Jie Xu]
- Fix order of C style arrays. [Duraid Madina]
- Add --dump-treei-<srcfile>. (#894) [Jie Xu]
- Fix comma-instantiations with parameters. (#884) [Franck Jullien]
- Fix SystemC arrayed bit vectors. (#886) [David Poole]
- Fix compile error on MinGW. (#887) [HyungKi Jeong]
Minor:
- Suppress COMBDLY when inside always_latch. (#864) [Iztok Jeras]
- Support cast operator with expression size. (#865) [Iztok Jeras]
- Add warning on slice selection out of bounds. (#875) [Cong Van Nguyen].
- Fix member select error broke in 3.868. (#867) [Iztok Jeras]
- Fix $sccanf from string. (#866) [David Pierce]
- Fix VM_PARALLEL_BUILDS broke in 3.868. (#870) [Hiroki Honda]
- Fix non-ANSI modport instantiations. (#868) [Kevin Thompson]
- Fix UNOPTFLAT change detect on multidim arrays. (#872) [Andrew Bardsley]
- Fix slice connections of arrays to ports. (#880) [Varun Koyyalagunta]
- Fix mis-optimizing gate assignments in unopt blocks. (#881) [Mike Thyer]
- Fix sign extension of pattern members. (#882) [Iztok Jeras]
- Fix clang compile warnings.
Major:
- New verilator_coverage program added to replace SystemPerl's vcoverage.
- PSL support was removed, please use System Verilog assertions.
- SystemPerl mode is deprecated and now untested.
Minor:
- Support enum.first/name and similar methods. (#460) (#848)
- Add 'string' printing and comparisons. (#746) (#747) etc.
- Inline C functions that are used only once. (#1838) [Jie Xu]
- Fix tracing SystemC signals with structures. (#858) [Eivind Liland] Note that SystemC traces will no longer show the signals in the wrapper, they can be seen one level further down.
- Add --stats-vars. (#851) [Jeremy Bennett]
- Fix bare generates in interfaces. (#789) [Bob Newgard]
- Fix underscores in real literals. (#863) [Jonathon Donaldson]
Minor:
- Fix +define+A+B to define A and B to match other simulators. (#847) [Adam Krolnik]
- Add optimization of wires from arrayed cells. (#1831) [Jie Xu]
- Add optimization of operators between concats. (#1831) [Jie Xu]
- Add public enums. (#833) [Jonathon Donaldson]
- Trace_off now operates on cells. (#826) [Lane Brooks]
- Fix public parameters in unused packages. (#804) [Jonathon Donaldson]
- Fix select when partially out-of-bound. (#823) [Clifford Wolf]
- Fix generate unrolling with function call. (#830) [Steven Slatter]
- Fix cast-to-size context-determined sizing. (#828) [Geoff Barrett]
- Fix not tracing modules following primitives. (#837) [Jie Xu]
- Fix trace overflow on huge arrays. (#834) [Geoff Barrett]
- Fix quoted comment slashes in defines. (#845) [Adam Krolnik]
Minor:
- Support power operator with real. (#809) [Jonathon Donaldson]
- Improve verilator_profcfunc time attributions. [Jonathon Donaldson]
- Fix duplicate anonymous structures in $root. (#788) [Bob Newgard]
- Fix mis-optimization of bit-swap in wide signal. (#800) [Jie Xu]
- Fix error when tracing public parameters. (#722) [Jonathon Donaldson]
- Fix dpiGetContext in dotted scopes. (#740) [Geoff Barrett]
- Fix over-shift structure optimization error. (#803) [Jeff Bush]
- Fix optional parameter keyword in module #(). (#810) [Iztok Jeras]
- Fix $warning/$error multi-argument ordering. (#816) [Jonathon Donaldson]
- Fix clang warnings. (#818) [Iztok Jeras]
- Fix string formats under deep expressions. (#820) [Iztok Jeras]
Minor:
- Using command line -Wno-{WARNING} now overrides file-local lint_on.
- Add -P to suppress `line and blanks with preprocessing. (#781) [Derek Lockhart]
- Support SV 2012 package import before port list.
- Change SYMRSVDWORD to print as warning rather than error.
- Fix seg-fault with variable of parameterized interface. (#692) [Jie Xu]
- Fix false name conflict on cells in generate blocks. (#749) [Igor Lesik]
- Fix pattern assignment to basic types. (#767) [Jie Xu]
- Fix pattern assignment to conditionals. (#769) [Jie Xu]
- Fix shift corner-cases. (#765) (#766) (#768) (#772) (#774) (#776) [Clifford Wolf]
- Fix C compiler interpreting signing. (#773) [Clifford Wolf]
- Fix late constant division by zero giving X error. (#775) [Clifford Wolf]
- Fix gate primitives with arrays and non-arrayed pins.
- Fix DETECTARRAY error on packed arrays. (#770) [Jie Xu]
- Fix ENDLABEL warnings on escaped identifiers.
- Fix string corruption. (#780) [Derek Lockhart]
Major:
- PSL is no longer supported, please use System Verilog assertions.
- Support '{} assignment pattern on arrays. (#355)
- Support streaming operators. (#649) [Glen Gibb]
- Fix expression problems with -Wno-WIDTH. (#729) (#736) (#737) (#759) Where WIDTH warnings were ignored this might result in different warning messages and results, though it should better match the spec. [Clifford Wolf]
Minor:
- Add --no-trace-params.
- Add assertions on 'unique if'. (#725) [Jeff Bush]
- Add PINCONNECTEMPTY warning. [Holger Waechtler]
- Support parameter arrays. (#683) [Jeremy Bennett]
- Documentation fixes. (#723) [Glen Gibb]
- Support {} in always sensitivity lists. (#745) [Igor Lesik]
- Fix begin_keywords "1800+VAMS". (#1806)
- Fix tracing of package variables and real arrays.
- Fix tracing of packed arrays without --trace-structs. (#742) [Jie Xu]
- Fix missing coverage line on else-if. (#727) [Sharad Bagri]
- Fix modport function import not-found error.
- Fix power operator calculation. (#730) (#735) [Clifford Wolf]
- Fix reporting struct members as reserved words. (#741) [Chris Randall]
- Fix change detection error on unions. (#758) [Jie Xu]
- Fix -Wno-UNOPTFLAT change detection with 64-bits. (#762) [Clifford Wolf]
- Fix shift-right optimization. (#763) [Clifford Wolf]
- Fix Mac OS-X test issues. [Holger Waechtler]
- Fix C++-2011 warnings.
Minor:
- Support case inside. (#708) [Jan Egil Ruud]
- Add parameters into trace files. (#706) [Alex Solomatnikov]
- Fix parsing "#0 'b0". (#256)
- Fix array bound checks on real variables.
- Fix --skip-identical mis-detecting on OS-X. (#707)
- Fix missing VL_SHIFTRS_IQI with WIDTH warning. (#714) [Fabrizio Ferrandi]
- Fix signed shift right optimization. (#715) [Fabrizio Ferrandi]
- Fix internal error on "input x =" syntax error. (#716) [Lane Brooks]
- Fix slice extraction from packed array. (#717) [Jan Egil Ruud]
- Fix inside statement EQWILD error. (#718) [Jan Egil Ruud]
Minor:
- Support modport import. (#696) [Jeremy Bennett]
- Add --trace-structs to show struct names. (#673) [Chris Randall]
- Fix tracing of packed structs. (#705) [Jie Xu]
- Fix --lint-only with MinGW. (#1813) [HyungKi Jeong]
- Fix some delayed assignments of typedefed unpacked arrays.
- Fix wire declarations with size and not range. (#466) [Alex Solomatnikov]
- Fix parameter pin vs. normal pin error. (#704) [Alex Solomatnikov]
Minor:
- Add UNPACKED warning to convert unpacked structs. [Jeremy Bennett]
- Add --compiler clang to work around compiler bug. (#694) [Stefan Ludwig]
- Support vpi_get of vpiSuppressVal. (#687) [Varun Koyyalagunta]
- Support vpi_get_time. (#688) [Varun Koyyalagunta]
- Fix evaluation of chained parameter functions. (#684) [Ted Campbell]
- Fix enum value extension of '1.
- Fix multiple VPI variable callbacks. (#679) [Rich Porter]
- Fix vpi_get of vpiSize. (#680) [Rich Porter]
- Fix vpi_remove_cb inside callback. (#689) [Varun Koyyalagunta]
- Fix crash with coverage of structures. (#691) [Eivind Liland]
- Fix array assignment from const var. (#693) [Jie Xu]
Minor:
- Add --no-order-clock-delay to work around #613. [Charlie Brej]
Minor:
- Support named function and task arguments. [Chris Randall]
- Report SELRANGE warning for non-generate if. (#675) [Roland Kruse]
- Fix ordering of $fgetc. (#1808) [Frédéric Requin]
- Fix --output-split-cfunc to count internal functions. [Chris Randall]
- Fix crash on 32-bit Ubuntu. (#670) [Mark Jackson Pulver]
Minor:
- Fix ordering of clock enables with delayed assigns. (#613) [Jeremy Bennett]
- Fix vpi_iterate on memory words. (#655) [Rich Porter]
- Fix final duplicate declarations when non-inlined. (#661) [Charlie Brej]
- Fix interface ports with comma lists. (#1779) [Ed Lander]
- Fix parameter real conversion from integer.
- Fix clang warnings. (#668) [Yutetsu Takatsukasa]
Major:
- Support interfaces and modports. (#102) [Byron Bradley, Jeremy Bennett]
Minor:
- Duplicate clock gate optimization on by default. (#621)
- Fix arrayed input compile error. (#645) [Krzysztof Jankowski]
- Fix GCC version runtime changes. (#651) [Jeremy Bennett]
- Fix packed array select internal error. (#652) [Krzysztof Jankowski]
Minor:
- Add ALWCOMBORDER warning. [KC Buckenmaier]
- Add --pins-sc-uint and --pins-sc-biguint. (#638) [Alex Hornung]
- Support "signal[vec]++".
- Fix simulation error when inputs and MULTIDRIVEN. (#634) [Ted Campbell]
- Fix module resolution with __. (#631) [Jason McMullan]
- Fix packed array non-zero right index select crash. (#642) [Krzysztof Jankowski]
- Fix nested union crash. (#643) [Krzysztof Jankowski]
Major:
- IEEE 1800-2012 is now the default language. This adds 4 new keywords and updates the svdpi.h and vpi_user.h header files.
- Add --report-unoptflat. (#611) [Jeremy Bennett]
Minor:
- Add duplicate clock gate optimization. (#1772) [Varun Koyyalagunta] Disabled unless -OD or -O3 used, please try it as may get some significant speedups.
- Support pattern assignment features. (#616) (#617) (#618) [Ed Lander]
- Support bind in $unit. (#602) [Ed Lander]
- Support <number>'() sized casts. (#628) [Ed Lander]
- Fix wrong dot resolution under inlining. [Art Stamness]
- Fix DETECTARRAY on packed structures. (#610) [Jeremy Bennett]
- Fix LITENDIAN on unpacked structures. (#614) [Wai Sum Mong]
- Fix 32-bit OS VPI scan issue. (#615) [Jeremy Bennett, Rich Porter]
- Fix opening a VerilatedVcdC file multiple times. (#1774) [Frédéric Requin]
- Fix UNOPTFLAT circular array bounds crossing. (#630) [Jie Xu]
Minor:
- Fix nested packed arrays and struct. (#600) [Jeremy Bennett] Packed arrays are now represented as a single linear vector in Verilated models. This may affect packed arrays that are public or accessed via the VPI.
- Support wires with data types. (#608) [Ed Lander]
- Support bind, to module names only. (#602) [Ed Lander]
- Support VPI product info, warning calls, etc. (#588) [Rick Porter]
- Support $left, $right and related functions. (#448) [Iztok Jeras]
- Support inside expressions.
- Define SYSTEMVERILOG, SV_COV_START and other IEEE mandated predefines.
- Fix pin width mismatch error. (#595) [Alex Solomatnikov]
- Fix implicit one bit parameter selection. (#603) [Jeremy Bennett]
- Fix signed/unsigned parameter misconversion. (#606) [Jeremy Bennett]
- Fix segfault on multidimensional dotted arrays. (#607) [Jie Xu]
- Fix per-bit array output connection error. (#414) [Jan Egil Ruud]
- Fix package logic var compile error.
- Fix enums with X values.
Minor:
- Support "unsigned int" DPI import functions. (#1770) [Alex Lee]
- Fix package resolution of parameters. (#586) [Jeremy Bennett]
- Fix non-integer vpi_get_value. (#587) [Rich Porter]
- Fix task inlining under $display and case. (#589) (#598) [Holger Waechtler]
- Fix package import of non-localparam parameter. (#474) (#591) [Jeremy Bennett]
- Fix package import of package imports, partial #592. [Jeremy Bennett]
- Fix package import preventing local var. (#599) [Jeremy Bennett]
- Fix array extraction of implicit vars. (#601) [Joe Eiler]
Minor:
- Add +1364-1995ext and similar language options. (#532) [Jeremy Bennett]
- Fix mis-optimized identical submodule subtract. (#581) [Charlie Brej]
- Fix crash on dotted references into dead modules. (#583) [Jeremy Bennett]
- Fix compile issues on MSVCC. (#571) (#577) [Amir Gonnen]
- Fix --debug overriding preceding --dump-treei. (#580) [Jeremy Bennett]
Minor:
- Add -x-initial-edge. (#570) [Jeremy Bennett]
- Fix parameter pins interspersed with cells broke in 3.840. [Bernard Deadman]
- Fix large shift error on large shift constants. [David Welch]
- Fix $display mangling on GCC 4.7 and speed up. (#1765) (#373) (#574) [R Diez]
- Fix array of struct references giving false error. (#566) [Julius Baxter]
- Fix missing var access functions when no DPI. (#572) [Amir Gonnen]
- Fix name collision on unnamed blocks. (#567) [Chandan Egbert]
- Fix name collision on task inputs. (#569) [Chandan Egbert]
Major:
- Add --savable to support model save/restore. [Jeremy Bennett]
Minor:
- Support '{} assignment pattern on structures, part of #355.
- Fix double-deep parameter cell WIDTHs. (#541) [Hiroki Honda]
- Fix imports under multiple instantiated cells. (#542) [Alex Solomatnikov]
- Fix defparam in generate broke in 3.840. (#543) [Alex Solomatnikov]
- Fix duplicate begin error broke in 3.840. (#548) [Alex Solomatnikov]
- Fix triangle symbol resolution error broke in 3.840. (#550) [Ted Campbell]
Major:
- Rewrote tristate handling; supports tri0, tri1, tristate bit selects, concatenates and pullup/pulldowns. (#395) (#56) (#54) (#51) [Alex Solomatnikov, Lane Brooks, et al]
- Support packed structures and unions. (#181) Note this was a major internal change that may lead to some instability.
Minor:
- Support tri0 and tri1. (#462) [Alex Solomatnikov]
- Support nmos and pmos. (#488) [Alex Solomatnikov]
- Add INITIALDLY warning on initial assignments. (#478) [Alex Solomatnikov]
- Add PINMISSING and PINNOCONNECT lint checks.
- Add --converge-limit option.
- Fix generate operators not short circuiting. (#413) [by Jeremy Bennett]
- Fix parameters not supported in constant functions. (#474) [Alex Solomatnikov]
- Fix duplicate warnings/errors. (#516) [Alex Solomatnikov]
- Fix signed extending biops with WIDTH warning off. (#511) [Junji Hashimoto]
- Fix ITOD internal error on real conversions. (#491) [Alex Solomatnikov]
- Fix input and real loosing real data type. (#501) [Alex Solomatnikov]
- Fix imports causing symbol table error. (#490) [Alex Solomatnikov]
- Fix newlines in radix values. (#507) [Walter Lavino]
- Fix loop error message to report line. (#513) [Jeremy Bennett]
- Fix false UNUSED warning on file system calls.
- Fix GCC 4.7.0 compile warnings. (#530) [Jeremy Bennett]
- Fix svdpi.h compile error on Apple OS.
- Fix compile error under git submodules. (#534) [Aurelien Francillon]
Minor:
- Support += and -= in standard for loops. (#463) [Alex Solomatnikov]
- Fix processing unused parameterized modules. (#469) (#470) [Alex Solomatnikov]
- Add SELRANGE as warning instead of error. (#477) [Alex Solomatnikov]
- Add readme.pdf and internal.pdf and doxygen. (#483) [by Jeremy Bennett]
- Fix change detections on arrays. (#364) [John Stevenson, Alex Solomatnikov]
- Fix signed array warning. (#456) [Alex Solomatnikov]
- Fix genvar and begin under generate. (#461) [Alex Solomatnikov]
- Fix real constant parameter functions. (#475) [Alex Solomatnikov]
- Fix and document --gdb option. (#454) [Jeremy Bennett]
- Fix OpenSolaris compile error. [Sanjay Singh]
Minor:
- Fix memory delayed assignments from multiple clock domains. [Andrew Ling]
- Support arrayed SystemC I/O pins. [Christophe Joly]
- Report MULTIDRIVEN on memories set in multiple clock domains.
- Report ENDLABEL on mismatching end labels. (#450) [Iztok Jeras]
- Fix expansion of back-slashed escaped macros. (#441) [Alberto Del Rio]
- Fix inheriting real and signed type across untyped parameters.
- Fix core dump with over 100 deep UNOPTFLAT. (#432) [Joe Eiler]
- Fix false command not found warning in makefiles. [Ruben Diez]
- Fix hang when functions inside begin block. [David Welch]
- Fix hang on recursive substitution `defines. (#443) [Alex Solomatnikov]
Major:
- Support SystemC 2.3.0 prerelease. This requires setting the new SYSTEMC_INCLUDE and SYSTEMC_LIBDIR variables in place of now deprecated SYSTEMC and SYSTEMC_ARCH. [Iztok Jeras]
Minor:
- Suppress VARHIDDEN on dpi import arguments. [Ruben Diez]
- Support "generate for (genvar i=0; ...". [David Kravitz]
- Fix dpi exports with > 32 bit but < 64 bit args. (#423) [Chandan Egbert]
- Fix array of instantiations with sub-range output. (#414) [Jeremy Bennett]
- Fix BLKSEQ warnings on variables declared inside always. [Ruben Diez]
Major:
- With "--language VAMS" support a touch of Verilog AMS. [Holger Waechtler]
Minor:
- Add sc_bv attribute to force bit vectors. (#402) [by Stefan Wallentowitz]
- Search for user -y paths before default current directory. [Ruben Diez]
- Support constants in sensitivity lists. (#412) [Jeremy Bennett]
- Support $system. [Ruben Diez]
- Support $sscanf with %g. [Holger Waechtler]
- Indicate 'exiting due to errors' if errors, not warnings. [Ruben Diez]
- Fix bad result with if-else-return optimization. (#420) [Alex Solomatnikov]
- Fix reporting not found modules if generate-off. (#403) [Jeremy Bennett]
- Fix $display with %d following %g. [Holger Waechtler]
Minor:
- Fix "always @ (* )". (#403) (#404) [Walter Lavino]
- Add ASSIGNIN as suppressible error. [Jeremy Bennett]
- Fix 3.823 constructor core dump on Debian. (#401) [Ahmed El-Mahmoudy]
Minor:
- Support $ceil, $floor, etc. [Alex Solomatnikov]
- Add configure options for cc warnings and extended tests. [Ruben Diez]
- Add -Wall reporting ASSIGNDLY on assignment delays. [Ruben Diez]
- Fix UNDRIVEN warnings inside DPI import functions. [Ruben Diez]
- Fix --help output to go to stderr, not stdout. (#397) [Ruben Diez]
- Fix DPI import output of 64 bits. (#398) [Mike Denio]
- Fix DPI import false BLKSEQ warnings. [Alex Solomatnikov]
- Fix MSVC compile warning with trunc/round. (#394) [Amir Gonnen]
- Fix autoconf and Makefile warnings. (#396) [Ruben Diez]
Minor:
- Fix PowerPC runtime error. (#288) [Ahmed El-Mahmoudy]
- Fix internal error on integer casts. (#374) [Chandan Egbert]
Minor:
- Support 'real' numbers and related functions.
- Support 'const' variables in limited cases; similar to enums. [Alex Solomatnikov]
- Support disable for loop escapes.
- Support $fopen and I/O with integer instead of `verilator_file_descriptor.
- Support coverage in -cc and -sc output modes. [John Li] Note this requires SystemPerl 1.338 or newer.
- Use 'vluint64_t' for SystemC instead of (same sized) 'uint64' for MSVC++.
- Fix vpi_register_cb using bad s_cb_data. (#370) [by Thomas Watts]
- Fix $display missing leading zeros in %0d. (#367) [Alex Solomatnikov]
Minor:
- Support bit vectors > 64 bits wide in DPI import and exports.
- Fix out of memory on slice syntax error. (#354) [Alex Solomatnikov]
- Fix error on enum references to other packages. (#339) [Alex Solomatnikov]
- Fix DPI undeclared svBitVecVal compile error. (#346) [Chandan Egbert]
- Fix DPI bit vector compile errors. (#347) (#359) [Chandan Egbert]
- Fix CDCRSTLOGIC report showing endpoint flops without resets.
- Fix compiler warnings on SPARC. (#288) [Ahmed El-Mahmoudy]
Minor:
- Add --trace-max-width and --trace-max-array. (#319) [Alex Solomatnikov]
- Add --Wno-fatal to turn off abort on warnings. [by Stefan Wallentowitz]
- Support
${...} and $ (...) env vars in .vc files. [by Stefan Wallentowitz] - Support $bits(data_type). (#327) [Alex Solomatnikov]
- Support loop unrolling on width mismatches. (#333) [Joe Eiler]
- Support simple cast operators. (#335) [Alex Solomatnikov]
- Accelerate bit-selected inversions.
- Add error on circular parameter definitions. (#329) [Alex Solomatnikov]
- Fix concatenates and vectored bufif1. (#326) [Iztok Jeras]
Minor:
- Report error on duplicated or empty pins. (#321) [Christian Leber]
- Report error on function call output tied to constant. [Bernard Deadman]
- Throw UNUSED/UNDRIVEN only once per net in a parameterized module.
- Fix internal error on functions called as SV tasks. [Bernard Deadman]
- Fix internal error on non-inlined inout pins. [Jeff Winston]
- Fix false BLKSEQ on non-unrolled for loop indexes. [Jeff Winston]
- Fix block comment not separating identifiers. (#311) [Gene Sullivan]
- Fix warnings to point to lowest net usage, not upper level ports.
- Fix error on constants connected to outputs. (#323) [Christian Leber]
Major:
- Add limited support for VPI access to public signals, see docs.
- Add -F option to read relative option files. (#297) [Neil Hamilton]
- Support ++,--,+= etc as standalone statements. [Alex Solomatnikov]
- Add -Wall, -Wwarn-style, -Wno-style to enable code style warnings that have been added to this release, and disabled by default:
- With --Wall, add BLKSEQ warning on blocking assignments in seq blocks.
- With --Wall, add DECLFILENAME warning on modules not matching filename.
- With --Wall, add DEFPARAM warning on deprecated defparam statements.
- With --Wall, add IFDEPTH warning on deep if statements.
- With --Wall, add INCABSPATH warning on `include with absolute paths.
- With --Wall, add SYNCASYNCNET warning on mixed sync/async reset nets.
- With --Wall, add UNDRIVEN warning on undriven nets.
- With --Wall, add UNUSED warning on unused nets.
Minor:
- When running with VERILATOR_ROOT, optionally find binaries under bin.
- Suppress WIDTH warnings when adding/subtracting 1'b1.
- The VARHIDDEN warning is now disabled by default, use -Wall to enable.
Minor:
- Add warning when directory contains spaces. (#1705) [Salman Sheikh]
- Fix wrong filename on include file errors. (#289) [Brad Parker]
- Fix segfault on SystemVerilog "output wire foo=0". (#291) [Joshua Wise]
- Fix DPI export name not found. (#1703) [Terry Chen]
Minor:
- Support tracing/coverage of underscore signals. (#280) [by Jason McMullan]
- Increase define recursions before error. [Paul Liu]
- On core dump, print debug suggestions.
- Fix preprocessor `` of existing base define. (#283) [Usha Priyadharshini]
Minor:
- Fix preprocessor preservation of newlines across macro substitutions.
- Fix preprocessor stringification of nested macros.
- Fix some constant parameter functions causing crash. (#253) [Nick Bowler]
- Fix do {...} while() not requiring final semicolon.
Minor:
- Support runtime access to public signal names.
- Add /verilator public_flat_rw/ for timing-specific public access.
- Fix word size to match uint64_t on -m64 systems. (#238) [Joe Eiler]
- Improve error handling on slices of arrays. (#226) [by Byron Bradley]
- Report errors when extra underscores used in meta-comments.
- Fix bit reductions on multi-packed dimensions. (#227) [by Byron Bradley]
- Fix removing $fscanf if assigned to unused var. (#248) [Ashutosh Das]
- Fix "make install" with configure outside srcdir. [Stefan Wallentowitz]
- Fix loop unroller out of memory; change --unroll-stmts. [Ashutosh Das]
- Fix trace files with empty modules crashing some viewers.
- Fix parsing single files > 2GB. [Jeffrey Short]
- Fix installing data files as non-executable. (#168) [by Ahmed El-Mahmoudy]
Minor:
- Support "break", "continue", "return".
- Support "`default_nettype none|wire". [Dominic Plunkett]
- Skip SystemC tests if not installed. [Iztok Jeras]
- Fix clock-gates with non-AND complex logic. (#220) [Ashutosh Das]
- Fix flushing VCD buffers on $stop. [Ashutosh Das]
- Fix Mac OS-X compile issues. (#217) [Joshua Wise, Trevor Williams]
- Fix make uninstall. (#216) [Iztok Jeras]
- Fix parameterized defines with empty arguments.
Major application visible changes:
- SystemPerl is no longer required for tracing. Applications must use VerilatedVcdC class in place of SpTraceVcdC.
- SystemVerilog 1800-2009 is now the default language. Thus "global" etc are now keywords. See the --language option.
Major new features:
- Support SystemVerilog types "byte", "chandle", "int", "longint", "shortint", "time", "var" and "void" in variables and functions.
- Support "program", "package", "import" and $unit.
- Support typedef and enum. [by Donal Casey]
- Support direct programming interface (DPI) "import" and "export". Includes an extension to map user $system PLI calls to the DPI.
- Support assignments of multidimensional slices. (#170) [by Byron Bradley]
- Support multidimensional inputs/outputs. (#171) [by Byron Bradley]
- Support "reg [1:0][1:0][1:0]" and "reg x [3][2]". (#176) [Byron Bradley]
- Support declarations in loop initializers. (#172) [by Byron Bradley]
- Support $test$plusargs and $value$plusargs, but see the docs!
- Support $sformat and $swrite.
- Support 1800-2009 define defaults and `undefineall.
- Add -CFLAGS, -LDFLAGS, <file>.a, <file>.o, and <file>.so options.
- Speed compiles by avoiding including the STL iostream header. Application programs may need to include it themselves to avoid errors.
- Add experimental clock domain crossing checks.
- Add experimental --pipe-filter to filter all Verilog input.
- Add experimental config files to filter warnings outside of the source.
- Add VARHIDDEN warning when signal name hides module name.
- Support optional cell parenthesis. (#179) [by Byron Bradley]
- Support for-loop i++, ++i, i--, --i. (#175) [by Byron Bradley]
- Support 1800-2009 /comments/ in define values.
- Add Makefile VM_GLOBAL_FAST, listing objects needed to link executables.
- Add --bbox-unsup option to black-box unsupported UDP tables.
- Add -Wno-MODDUP option to allow duplicate modules.
Bug fixes:
- Fix implicit variable issues. (#196) (#201) [Byron Bradley]
- Fix 'for' variable typing. (#205) [by Byron Bradley]
- Fix tracing with --pins-bv 1. (#195) [Michael S]
- Fix MSVC++ 2008 compile issues. (#209) [Amir Gonnen]
- Fix MinGW compilation. (#184) (#214) [by Shankar Giri, Amir Gonnen]
- Fix Cygwin 1.7.x compiler error with uint32_t. (#204) [Ivan Djordjevic]
- Fix `define argument mis-replacing system task of same name. (#191)
- Fix Verilator core dump on wide integer divides. (#178) [Byron Bradley]
- Fix lint_off/lint_on meta comments on same line as warning.
Major:
- Support little endian bit vectors ("reg [0:2] x;").
- Support division and modulus of > 64 bit vectors. [Gary Thomas]
Minor:
- Fix writing to out-of-bounds arrays writing element 0.
- Fix core dump with SystemVerilog var declarations under unnamed begins.
- Fix VCD files showing internal flattened hierarchy, broke in 3.714.
- Fix cell port connection to unsized integer causing false width warning.
- Fix erroring on strings with backslashed newlines. (#168) [Pete Nixon]
Major:
- Add --bbox-sys option to blackbox $system calls.
Minor:
- Support generate for var++, var--, ++var, --var.
- Improved warning when "do" used as identifier.
- Don't require SYSTEMPERL_INCLUDE if SYSTEMPERL/src exists. [Gary Thomas]
- Fix deep defines causing flex scanner overflows. [Brad Dobbie]
- Fix preprocessing commas in deep parameterized macros. [Brad Dobbie]
- Fix tracing escaped dotted identifiers. (#107)
- Fix $display with uppercase %M.
- Fix --error-limit option being ignored.
Minor:
- Support constant function calls for parameters. [many!]
- Support SystemVerilog "logic". (#101) [by Alex Duller]
- Name SYMRSVDWORD error, and allow disabling it. (#103) [Gary Thomas]
- Fix escaped preprocessor identifiers. (#106) [Nimrod Gileadi]
Major:
- Patching SystemC is no longer required to trace sc_bvs.
Minor:
- Add verilator --pins-uint8 option to use sc_in<uint8_t/uint16_t>.
- Add verilator -V option, to show verbose version.
- Add BLKLOOPINIT error code, and describe --unroll-count. [Jeff Winston]
- Support zero-width constants in concatenations. [Jeff Winston]
- On WIDTH warnings, show variable name causing error. [Jeff Winston]
Minor:
- Support decimal constants of arbitrary widths. [Mark Marshall]
- Fix error on case statement with all duplicate items. (#99) [Gary Thomas]
- Fix segfault on unrolling for's with bad inits. (#90) [Andreas Olofsson]
- Fix tristates causing "Assigned pin is neither...". [by Lane Brooks]
- Fix compiler errors under Fedora release candidate 11. [Chitlesh Goorah]
Major:
- Verilator is now licensed under LGPL v3 and/or Artistic v2.0.
Minor:
- `__FILE__ now expands to a string, per draft SystemVerilog 2010(ish).
- The front end parser has been re-factored to enable more SV parsing. Code should parse the same, but minor parsing bugs may pop up.
- Verilator_includer is no longer installed twice. (#48) [Lane Brooks]
- Fix escaped identifiers with '.' causing conflicts. (#83) [J Baxter]
- Fix define formal arguments that contain newlines. (#84) [David A]
Minor:
- Fix $clog2 calculation error with powers-of-2. (#81) [Patricio Kaplan]
- Fix error with tasks that have output first. (#78) [Andrea Foletto]
- Fix "cloning" error with -y/--top-module. (#76) [Dimitris Nalbantis]
- Fix segfault with error on bad --top-module. (#79) [Dimitris Nalbantis]
- Fix "redefining I" error with complex includes. [Duraid Madina]
- Fix GCC 4.3.2 compile warnings.
Minor:
- Add --pins-bv option to use sc_bv for all ports. [Brian Small]
- Add SYSTEMPERL_INCLUDE envvar to assist RPM builds. [Chitlesh Goorah]
- Report errors when duplicate labels are used. (#72) [Vasu Kandadi]
- Fix the SC_MODULE name() to not include __PVT__. [Bob Fredieu]
Minor:
- Support repeat and forever statements. [Jeremy Bennett]
- Add --debugi-<srcfile> option, for internal debugging. [Dennis Muhlestein]
- Fix compile issues with GCC 4.3. (#47) [Lane Brooks]
- Fix VL_RANDom to better randomize bits. [Art Stamness]
- Fix error messages to consistently go to stderr. [Jeremy Bennett]
- Fix left associativity for ?: operators.
Major:
- Support limited tristate inouts. Written by Lane Brooks, under support by Ubixum Inc. This allows common pad ring and tristate-mux structures to be Verilated. See the documentation for more information on supported constructs.
- Add --coverage_toggle for toggle coverage analysis. Running coverage now requires SystemPerl 1.301 or newer.
- Add coverage_on/_off metacomments to bracket coverage regions.
Minor:
- Support posedge of bit-selected signals. (#45) [Rodney Sinclair]
- Optimize two-level shift and and/or trees, +23% on one test.
- Line coverage now aggregates by hierarchy automatically. Previously this would be done inside SystemPerl, which was slower.
- Minor performance improvements of Verilator compiler runtime.
- Coverage of each parameterized module is counted separately. [Bob Fredieu]
- Fix creating parameterized modules when no parameter values are changed.
- Fix certain generate-if cells causing "clone" error. [Stephane Laurent]
- Fix line coverage of public functions. [Soon Koh]
- Fix SystemC 2.2 deprecated warnings about sensitive() and sc_start().
- Fix arrayed variables under function not compiling. (#44) [Ralf Karge]
- Fix --output-split-cfuncs to also split trace code. [Niranjan Prabhu]
- Fix 'bad select range' warning missing some cases. (#43) [Lane Brooks]
- Fix internal signal names containing control characters (broke in 3.680).
- Fix compile error on Ubuntu 8.10. [Christopher Boumenot]
- Fix internal error on "output x; reg x = y;".
- Fix wrong result for read of delayed FSM signal. (#46) [Rodney Sinclair]
Minor:
- Support SystemVerilog unique and priority case.
- Include Verilog file's directory name in coverage reports.
- Fix 'for' under 'generate-for' causing error. (#38) [Rafael Shirakawa]
- Fix coverage hierarchy being backwards with inlining. [Vasu Arasanipalai]
- Fix GCC 4.3 compile error. (#35) [Lane Brooks]
- Fix MSVC compile error. (#42) [John Stroebel]
Major:
- Support negative bit indexes. [Stephane Laurent] Tracing negative indexes requires latest Verilog-Perl and SystemPerl.
Minor:
- Suppress width warnings between constant strings and wider vectors. [Rodney Sinclair]
- Ignore SystemVerilog timeunit and timeprecision.
- Expand environment variables in -f input files. [Lawrence Butcher]
- Report error if port declaration is missing. (#32) [Guy-Armand Kamendje]
- Fix genvars causing link error when using --public. [Chris Candler]
Major:
- SystemC uint64_t pins are now the default instead of sc_bv<64>. Use --no-pins64 for backward compatibility.
- Support SystemVerilog "cover property" statements.
Minor:
- When warnings are disabled on signals that are flattened out, disable the warnings on the signal(s) that replace it.
- Add by-design and by-module subtotals to verilator_profcfunc.
- Add IMPERFECTSCH warning, disabled by default.
- Support coverage under SystemPerl 1.285 and newer.
- Support arbitrary characters in identifiers. [Stephane Laurent]
- Fix extra evaluation of pure combo blocks in SystemC output.
- Fix stack overflow on large ? : trees. [John Sanguinetti]
Major:
- Add --x-assign=fast option, and make it the default. This chooses performance over reset debugging. See the manual.
- Add --autoflush, for flushing streams after $display. [Steve Tong]
- Add CASEWITHX lint warning and if disabled fix handling of casez with Xs.
Minor:
- Add $feof, $fgetc, $fgets, $fflush, $fscanf, $sscanf. [Holger Waechtler]
- Add $stime. [Holger Waechtler]
- Add $random.
- Add --Wfuture-, for improving forward compatibility.
- Add WIDTH warning to $fopen etc file descriptors.
- Fix verilator_includer not being installed properly. [Holger Waechtler]
- Fix IMPURE errors due to X-assignment temporary variables. [Steve Tong]
- Fix "lvalue" errors with public functions. (#25) [CY Wang]
Minor:
- Ignore "// verilator" comments alone on endif lines. [Rodney Sinclair]
- "Make install" now installs verilator_includer and verilator_profcfunc.
- Fix tracing missing changes on undriven public wires. [Rodney Sinclair]
- Fix syntax error when "`include `defname" is ifdefed. [John Dickol]
- Fix error when macro call has commas in concatenate. [John Dickol]
- Fix compile errors under Fedora 9, GCC 4.3.0. [by Jeremy Bennett]
- Fix Makefile to find headers/libraries under prefix. [by Holger Waechtler]
Minor:
- Fix missing file in kit.
Minor:
- Add DESTDIR to Makefiles to assist RPM construction. [Gunter Dannoritzer]
- Fix compiler warnings under GCC 4.2.1.
- Fix preprocessor `else after series of `elsif. [Mark Nodine]
- Fix parameterized defines calling define with comma. [Joshua Wise]
- Fix comma separated list of primitives. [by Bryan Brady]
Minor:
- Add Verilog 2005 $clog2() function. This is useful in calculating bus-widths from parameters.
- Support C-style comments in -f option files. [Stefan Thiede]
- Add error message when modules have duplicate names. [Stefan Thiede]
- Support defines terminated in EOF, though against spec. [Stefan Thiede]
- Support optional argument to $finish and $stop. [by Stefan Thiede]
- Support ranges on gate primitive instantiations. [Stefan Thiede]
- Ignore old standard(ish) Verilog-XL defines. [by Stefan Thiede]
- Fix "always @ ((a) or (b))" syntax error. [by Niranjan Prabhu]
- Fix "output reg name=expr;" syntax error. [Martin Scharrer]
- Fix multiple .v files being read in random order. [Stefan Thiede]
- Fix internal error when params get non-constants. [Johan Wouters]
- Fix bug introduced in 3.661 with parameterized defines.
Major:
- The --enable-defenv configure option added in 3.660 is now the default. This hard-codes a default for VERILATOR_ROOT etc in the executables.
- Add --language option for supporting older code. [Stefan Thiede]
- Add --top-module option to select between multiple tops. [Stefan Thiede]
Minor:
- Unsized concatenates now give WIDTHCONCAT warnings. [Jonathan Kimmitt] Previously they threw fatal errors, which in most cases is correct according to spec, but can be incorrect in presence of parameter values.
- Support functions with "input integer". [Johan Wouters]
- Ignore delays attached to gate UDPs. [Stefan Thiede]
- Fix SystemVerilog parameterized defines with `` expansion, and fix extra whitespace inserted on substitution. [Vladimir Matveyenko]
- Fix no-module include files on command line. [Stefan Thiede]
- Fix dropping of backslash quoted-quote at end of $display.
- Fix task output pin connected to non-variables. [Jonathan Kimmitt]
- Fix missing test_v in install datadir. [Holger Waechtler]
- Fix internal error after MSB < LSB error reported to user. [Stefan Thiede]
Minor:
- Support hard-coding VERILATOR_ROOT etc in the executables, to enable easier use of Verilator RPMs. [Gunter Dannoritzer]
- Allow multiple .v files on command line. [Stefan Thiede]
- Convert re-defining macro error to warning. [Stefan Thiede]
- Add --error-limit option. [Stefan Thiede]
- Allow __ in cell names by quoting them in C. [Stefan Thiede]
- Fix genvar to be signed, so "< 0" works properly. [Niranjan Prabhu]
- Fix assignments to inputs inside functions/tasks. [Patricio Kaplan]
- Fix definitions in main file.v, referenced in library. [Stefan Thiede]
- Fix undefined assigns to be implicit warnings. [Stefan Thiede]
Minor:
- Fix unistd compile error in 3.657. [Patricio Kaplan, Jonathan Kimmitt]
Minor:
- Fix assignments of {a,b,c} = {c,b,a}. [Jonathan Kimmitt]
- Fix Perl warning with --lint-only. [by Ding Xiaoliang]
- Fix to avoid creating obj_dir with --lint-only. [Ding Xiaoliang]
- Fix parsing of always @(*). [Patricio Kaplan]
Minor:
- Wide VL_CONST_W_#X functions are now made automatically. [Bernard Deadman] In such cases, a new {prefix}__Inlines.h file will be built and included.
- Fix sign error when extracting from signed memory. [Peter Debacker]
- Fix tracing of SystemC w/o SystemPerl. [Bernard Deadman, Johan Wouters]
Minor:
- Support "#delay <statement>;" with associated STMTDLY warning.
- Fix generate for loops with constant zero conditions. [Rodney Sinclair]
- Fix divide-by-zero errors in constant propagator. [Rodney Sinclair]
- Fix wrong result with obscure signed-shift underneath a "? :".
- Fix many internal memory leaks, and added leak detector.
Minor:
- Don't exit early if many warnings but no errors are found. [Stan Mayer]
- Fix parsing module #(parameter x,y) declarations. [Oleg Rodionov]
- Fix parsing system functions with empty parens. [Oleg Rodionov]
Minor:
- Support SystemVerilog ==? and !=? operators.
- Fix SC_LIBS missing from generated makefiles. [Ding Xiaoliang]
Minor:
- Report as many warning types as possible before exiting.
- Support V2K portlists with "input a,b,...". [Mark Nodine]
- Support V2K function/task argument lists.
- Optimize constant $display arguments.
- Fix preprocessor dropping some `line directives. [Mark Nodine]
Major:
- Add verilator_profcfunc utility. [Gene Weber]
Minor:
- Treat modules within `celldefine and `endcelldefine as if in library.
- Support functions which return integers. [Mark Nodine]
- Warn if flex is not installed. [Ralf Karge]
- Ignore `protect and `endprotect.
- Fix empty case/endcase blocks.
Major:
- Add --compiler msvc option. This is now required when Verilated code is to be run through MSVC++. This also enables fixing MSVC++ error C1061, blocks nested too deeply. [Ralf Karge]
- Add --lint-only option, to lint without creating other output.
Minor:
- Add /verilator lint_save/ and /verilator lint_restore/ to allow friendly control over re-enabling lint messages. [Gerald Williams]
- Support SystemVerilog .name and .* interconnect.
- Support while and do-while loops.
- Use
$(LINK) instead of $ (CXX) for Makefile link rules. [Gerald Williams] - Add USER_CPPFLAGS and USER_LDFLAGS to Makefiles. [Gerald Williams]
- Fix compile errors under Windows MINGW compiler. [Gerald Williams]
- Fix dotted bit reference to local memory. [Eugene Weber]
- Fix 3.640 `verilog forcing IEEE 1364-1995 only. [David Hewson]
Minor:
- Support Verilog 2005 `begin_keywords and `end_keywords.
- Updated list of SystemVerilog keywords to correspond to IEEE 1800-2005.
- Add /verilator public_flat/. [Eugene Weber]
- Try all +libext's in the exact order given. [Michael Shinkarovsky]
- Fix elimination of public signals assigned to constants. [Eugene Weber]
- Fix internal error when public for loop has empty body. [David Addison]
- Fix "Loops detected" assertion when model exceeds 4GB. [David Hewson]
- Fix display %m names inside named blocks.
Minor:
- Add --trace-depth option for minimizing VCD file size. [Emerson Suguimoto]
- With VL_DEBUG, show wires causing convergence errors. [Mike Shinkarovsky]
- Fix isolate_assignments when many signals per always. [Mike Shinkarovsky]
- Fix isolate_assignments across task/func temporaries. [Mike Shinkarovsky]
- Fix $display's with array select followed by wide AND. [David Hewson]
Minor:
- Add /verilator isolate_assignments/ attribute. [Mike Shinkarovsky]
Major:
- Support standard NAME[#] for cells created by arraying or generate for. This replaces the non-standard name__# syntax used in earlier versions.
Minor:
- Fix again dotted references into generate cells. [David Hewson] Verilator no longer accepts duplicated variables inside unique generate blocks as this is illegal according to the specification.
- Fix $readmem* with filenames < 8 characters. [Emerson Suguimoto]
Major:
- Support $readmemb and $readmemh. [Eugene Weber, Arthur Kahlich]
Minor:
- When dotted signal lookup fails, help the user by showing known scopes.
- Fix to reduce depth of priority encoded case statements. [Eugene Weber]
- Fix configure and compiling under Solaris. [Bob Farrell]
- Fix dotted references inside generated cells. [David Hewson]
- Fix missed split optimization points underneath other re-split blocks.
Major:
- Add --output-split-cfuncs for accelerating GCC compile. [Eugene Weber]
Minor:
- Add M32 make variable to support -m32 compiles. [Eugene Weber]
- Fix $signed mis-extending when input has a WIDTH violation. [Eugene Weber]
Minor:
- Fix --skip-identical without --debug, broken in 3.621. [Andy Meier]
Major:
- Add /verilator no_inline_task/ to prevent over-expansion. [Eugene Weber]
Minor:
- Public functions now allow > 64 bit arguments.
- Remove .vpp intermediate files when not under --debug.
- Fix link error when using --exe with --trace. [Eugene Weber]
- Fix mis-optimization of wide concats with constants.
- Fix core dump on printing error when not under --debug. [Allan Cochrane]
Minor:
- Support simple inout task ports. [Eugene Weber]
- Allow overriding Perl, Flex and Bison versions. [by Robert Farrell]
- Optimize variables set to constants within basic blocks for ~3%.
- Default make no longer makes the docs; if you edit the documentation. sources, run "make info" to get them.
- Optimize additional Boolean identities (a|a = a, etc.)
- Fix coredump when dotted cross-ref inside task call. [Eugene Weber]
- Fix dotted variables in always sensitivity lists. [Allan Cochrane]
Minor:
- Verilator now works under DJGPP (Pentium GCC). [John Stroebel]
- Add default define for VL_PRINTF. [John Stroebel]
- Removed coverage request variable; see Coverage limitations in docs.
- Fix DOS carriage returns in multiline defines. [Ralf Karge]
- Fix printf format warnings on 64-bit linux.
Minor:
- Fix function references under top inlined module. [David Hewson]
Major:
- Add --inhibit-sim flag for environments using old __Vm_inhibitSim.
- Add `systemc_dtor for destructor extensions. [Allan Cochrane]
- Add -MP to make phony dependencies, ala GCC's.
Minor:
- Changed how internal functions are invoked to reduce aliasing. Useful when using GCC's -O2 or -fstrict-aliasing, to gain another ~4%.
- Declare optimized lookup tables as 'static', to reduce D-Cache miss rate.
- Fix memory leak when destroying modules. [John Stroebel]
- Fix coredump when unused modules have unused cells. [David Hewson]
- Fix 3.600 internal error with arrayed instances. [David Hewson]
- Fix 3.600 internal error with non-unrolled function loops. [David Hewson]
- Fix $display %m name not matching Verilog name inside SystemC modules.
Major:
- Support dotted cross-hierarchy variable and task references.
Minor:
- Lint for x's in generate case statements.
- Fix line numbers being off by one when first file starts with newline.
- Fix naming of generate for blocks to prevent non-inline name conflict.
- Fix redundant statements remaining after table optimization.
Minor:
- vl_finish and vl_fatal now print via VL_PRINTF rather then cerr/cout.
- Fix extraneous UNSIGNED warning when comparing genvars. [David Hewson]
- Fix extra white space in $display %c. [by David Addison]
- Fix missing VL_CONST_W_24X macro. [Bernard Deadman]
Minor:
- Add warning on changeDetect to arrayed structures. [David Hewson]
- Fix "// verilator lint_on" not re-enabling warnings. [David Hewson]
- Fix 3.540's multiple memory assignments to same block. [David Hewson]
- Fix non-zero start number for arrayed instantiations. [Jae Hossell]
- Fix GCC 4.0 header file warnings.
Minor:
- Optimize combo assignments that are used only once, ~5-25% faster.
- Optimize delayed assignments to memories inside loops, ~0-5% faster.
- Fix mis-width warning on bit selects of memories. [David Hewson]
- Fix mis-width warning on dead generate-if branches. [Jae Hossell]
Minor:
- Add PDF user manual, verilator.pdf.
- Fix delayed bit-selected arrayed assignments. [David Hewson]
- Fix execution path to Perl. [Shanshan Xu]
- Fix Bison compile errors in verilog.y. [by Ben Jackson]
Minor:
- Support $c routines which return 64 bit values.
- Fix `include `DEFINE.
- Fix Verilator core dump when have empty public function. [David.Hewson]
Major:
- $time is now 64 bits. The macro VL_TIME_I is now VL_TIME_Q, but calls the same sc_time_stamp() function to get the current time.
Minor:
- Fix error line numbers being off due to multi-line defines. [Mat Zeno]
- Fix GCC sign extending (uint64_t)(a<b). [David Hewson]
- Fix `systemc_imp_header "undefined macro" error.
Minor:
- Add UNUSED error message, for forward compatibility.
Major:
- Create new --coverage-line and --coverage-user options. [Peter Holmes]
Minor:
- Add SystemVerilog 'x,'z,'0,'1, and new string literals.
- Fix public module's parent still getting inlined.
Major:
- Support $fopen, $fclose, $fwrite, $fdisplay. See documentation, as the file descriptors differ from the standard.
Major:
- Improve trace-on performance on large multi-clock designs by 2x or more. This adds a small ~2% performance penalty if traces are compiled in, but not turned on. For best non-tracing performance, do not use --trace.
Minor:
- Fix $'s in specify delays causing bad PLI errors. [Mat Zeno]
- Fix public functions not setting up proper symbol table. [Mat Zeno]
- Fix genvars generating trace compile errors. [Mat Zeno]
- Fix VL_MULS_WWW compile error with MSVC++. [Wim Michiels]
Minor:
- Fix local non-IO variables in public functions and tasks.
- Fix bad lifetime optimization when same signal is assigned multiple times in both branch of an if. [Danny Ding]
Major:
- Add --prof-cfuncs for correlating profiles back to Verilog.
Minor:
- Fix functions where regs are declared before inputs. [Danny Ding]
- Fix bad deep expressions with bit-selects and rotate. [Prabhat Gupta]
Major:
- Support signed numbers, >>>, $signed, $unsigned. [MANY!]
- Support multi-dimensional arrays. [Eugen Fekete]
- Support very limited Property Specification Language (aka PSL or Sugar). The format and keywords are now very limited, but will grow with future releases. The --assert switch enables this feature.
- With --assert, generate assertions for synthesis parallel_case and full_case.
Minor:
- Fix generate if's with empty if/else blocks. [Mat Zeno]
- Fix generate for cell instantiations with same name. [Mat Zeno]
Minor:
- Add /verilator tracing_on/off/ for waveform control.
- Fix split optimization reordering $display statements.
Major:
- Allow coverage of flattened modules, and multiple points per line. Coverage analysis requires SystemPerl 1.230 or newer.
Minor:
- Add preprocessor changes to support meta-comments.
- Optimize sequential assignments of different bits of same bus; ~5% faster.
- Optimize away duplicate lookup tables.
- Optimize wide concatenates into individual words. [Ralf Karge]
- Optimize local variables from delayed array assignments.
Minor:
- Optimize staging flops under reset blocks.
- Add '-Werror-...' to upgrade specific warnings to errors.
- Add GCC branch prediction hints on generated if statements.
- Fix bad simulation when same function called twice in same expression.
- Fix preprocessor substitution of quoted parameterized defines.
Major:
- Add `systemc_imp_header, for use when using --output-split.
- Add --stats option to dump design statistics.
Minor:
- Fix core dump with clock inversion optimizations.
Minor:
- Fix case defaults when not last statement in case list. [Wim Michiels]
Minor:
- Fix reordering of delayed assignments to same memory index. [Wim Michiels]
- Fix compile error with Flex 2.5.1. [Jens Arm]
- Fix multiply-instantiated public tasks generating non-compilable code.
Minor:
- Fix compile error with older versions of bison. [Jeff Dutton]
Major:
- Add -output-split option to enable faster parallel GCC compiles. To support --output-split, the makefiles now split VM_CLASSES into VM_CLASSES_FAST and VM_CLASSES_SLOW. This may require a change to local makefiles.
- Support -v argument to read library files.
Minor:
- When issuing unoptimizable warning, show an example path.
- Internal tree dumps now indicate edit number that changed the node.
- Fix false warning when a clock is constant.
- Fix X/Z in decimal numbers. [Wim Michiels]
- Fix genvar statements in non-named generate blocks.
- Fix core dump when missing newline in `define. [David van der Bokke]
Major:
- $finish will no longer exit, but set Verilated::gotFinish(). This enables support for final statements, and for other cleanup code. If this is undesired, redefine the vl_user_finish routine. Top level loops should use Verilated::gotFinish() as an exit condition for their loop, and then call top->final(). To prevent an infinite loop, a double $finish will still exit; this may be removed in future releases.
- Support SystemVerilog keywords $bits, $countones, $isunknown, $onehot, $onehot0, always_comb, always_ff, always_latch, finish.
Minor:
- Fix "=== 1'bx" to always be false, instead of random.
Major:
- Add Verilog 2001 generate for/if/case statements.
Minor:
- Fix selection bugs introduced in 3.430 beta.
Minor:
- Add Verilog 2001 variable part selects [n+:m] and [n-:m]. [Wim Michiels]
Minor:
- Add Verilog 2001 power (**) operator. [Danny Ding]
- Fix crash and added error message when assigning to inputs. [Ralf Karge]
- Fix tracing of modules with public functions.
Minor:
- Fix error about reserved word on non-public signals.
- Fix missing initialization compile errors in 3.420 beta. [Ralf Karge]
Minor:
- Performance improvements worth ~20%
- Add -x-assign options; ~5% faster if use -x-assign=0.
- Add error message when multiple defaults in case statement.
- Optimize shifts out of conditionals and if statements.
- Optimize local 'short' wires.
- Fix case defaults when not last statement in case list. [Ralf Karge]
- Fix crash when wire self-assigns x=x.
- Fix gate optimization with top-flattened modules. [Mahesh Kumashikar]
Minor:
- Fix compile error in GCC 2.96. [Jeff Dutton]
Major:
- Allow functions and tasks to be declared public. They will become public C++ functions, with appropriate C++ types. This allows users to make public accessor functions/tasks, instead of having to use public variables and `systemc_header hacks.
Minor:
- Skip producing output files if all inputs are identical This uses timestamps, similar to make. Disable with --no-skip-identical.
- Improved compile performance with large case statements.
- Fix internal error in V3Table. [Jeff Dutton]
- Fix compile error in GCC 2.96, and with SystemC 1.2. [Jeff Dutton]
Major:
- Internal changes to support future clocking features.
- Verilog-Perl and SystemPerl are no longer required for C++ or SystemC output. If you want tracing or coverage analysis, they are still needed.
- Add --sc to create pure SystemC output not requiring SystemPerl.
- Add --pins64 to create 64 bit SystemC outputs instead of sc_bv<64>.
- The --exe flag is now required to produce executables inside the makefile. This was previously the case any time .cpp files were passed on the command line.
- Add -O3 and --inline-mult for performance tuning. [Ralf Karge] One experiment regained 5% performance, at a cost of 300% in compile time.
Minor:
- Improved performance of large case/always statements with low fanin by converting to internal lookup tables (ROMs).
- Initialize SystemC port names. [S Shuba]
- Add Doxygen comments to Verilated includes.
- Fix -cc pins 8 bits wide and less to be uint8_t instead of uint16_t.
- Fix crash when Mdir has same name as .v file. [Gernot Koch]
- Fix crash with size mismatches on case items. [Gernot Koch]
Minor:
- Report misconnected pins across all modules, instead of just first error.
- Improved large netlist compile times.
- Fix over-active inlining, resulting in compile slowness.
Major:
- Add -E preprocess only flag, similar to GCC.
- Add CMPCONSTLR when comparison is constant due to > or < with all ones.
Minor:
- Fix loss of first -f file argument, introduced in 3.331.
Major:
- The Verilog::Perl preprocessor is now C++ code inside of Verilator. This improves performance, makes compilation easier, and enables some future features.
Minor:
- Support arrays of instantiations (non-primitives only). [Wim Michiels]
- Fix unlinked error with defparam. [Shawn Wang]
Major:
- NEWS is now renamed Changes, to support CPAN indexing.
- If Verilator is passed a C file, create a makefile link rule. This saves several user steps when compiling small projects.
Minor:
- Add new COMBDLY warning in place of fatal error. [Shawn Wang]
- Fix mis-simulation with wide-arrays under bit selects. [Ralf Karge]
- Add NC Verilog as alternative to VCS for reference tests.
- Support implicit wire declarations on input-only signals. (Dangerous, as leads to wires without drivers, but allowed by spec.)
- Fix compile warnings on Suse 9.1
Major:
- Support implicit wire declarations (as a warning). [Shawn Wang]
Minor:
- Fix over-shift difference in Verilog vs C++. [Ralf Karge]
Major:
- Support defparam.
- Support gate primitives: buf, not, and, nand, or, nor, xor, xnor.
Minor:
- Ignore all specify blocks.
Minor:
- Support NAND and NOR operators.
- Better warnings when port widths don't match.
- Fix internal error due to some port width mismatches. [Ralf Karge]
- Fix WIDTH warnings on modules that are only used parameterized, not in 'default' state.
- Fix selection of SystemC library on cygwin systems. [Shawn Wang]
- Fix runtime bit-selection of parameter constants.
Minor:
- Fix 64 bit [31:0] = {#{}} mis-simulation. [Ralf Karge]
- Fix shifts greater then word width mis-simulation. [Ralf Karge]
- Fix to work around GCC 2.96 negation bug.
Major:
- New backend that eliminates most VL macros. Improves performance 20%-50%, depending on frequency of use of signals over 64 bits. GCC compile times with -O2 shrink by a factor of 10.
Minor:
- Fix "setting unsigned int from signed value" warning.
Minor:
- Fix "loops detected" error with some negedge clocks.
- Fix some output code spacing issues.
Minor:
- Support Verilog 2001 parameters in module headers. [Ralf Karge]
- Faster code to support compilers not inlining all Verilated functions.
- Fix numeric fault when dividing by zero.
Major:
- Support Verilog 2001 named parameter instantiation. [Ralf Karge]
Minor:
- Return 1's when one bit wide extract indexes outside array bounds.
- Fix compile warnings on 64-bit operating systems.
- Fix incorrect dependency in .d file when setting VERILATOR_BIN.
Minor:
- Fix parenthesis overflow in Microsoft Visual C++ [Renga Sundararajan]
Major:
- Support Microsoft Visual C++ [Renga Sundararajan]
Minor:
- SystemPerl 1.161+ is required.
Minor:
- Support ,'s to separate multiple assignments. [Paul Nitza]
- Fix shift sign extension problem using non-GCC compilers.
Major:
- Verilator now uses 64 bit math where appropriate. Inputs and outputs of 33-64 bits wide to the C++ Verilated model must now be uint64_t's; SystemC has not changed, they will remain sc_bv's. This increases performance by ~ 9% on x86 machines, varying with how frequently 33-64 bit signals occur. Signals 9-16 bits wide are now stored as 16 bit shorts instead of longs, this aids cache packing.
Minor:
- Fix SystemC compile error with feedthrus. [Paul Nitza]
- Fix concat value error introduced in 3.230.
Minor:
- Add coverage output to test_sp example, SystemPerl 1.160+ is required.
- Fix time 0 value of signals. [Hans Van Antwerpen] Earlier versions would not evaluate some combinatorial signals until posedge/negedge blocks had been activated.
- Fix wide constant inputs to public submodules [Hans Van Antwerpen]
- Fix wide signal width extension bug. Only applies when width mismatch warnings were overridden.
Major:
- Many waveform tracing changes:
- Tracing is now supported on C++ standalone simulations. [John Brownlee]
Minor:
- When tracing, SystemPerl 1.150 or newer is required.
- When tracing, Verilator must be called with the --trace switch.
- Add SystemPerl example to documentation. [John Brownlee]
- Various Cygwin compilation fixes. [John Brownlee]
Major:
- Compiler optimization switches have changed See the BENCHMARKING section of the documentation.
- With Verilog-Perl 2.3 or newer, Verilator supports SystemVerilog preprocessor extensions.
Minor:
- Add localparam. [Thomas Hawkins]
- Add warnings for SystemVerilog reserved words.
Minor:
- Notes and repairs for Solaris. [Fred Ma]
Major:
- The beta version is now the primary release. See below for many changes. If you have many problems, you may wish to try release 3.125.
- Verilated::traceEverOn(true) must be called at time 0 if you will ever turn on tracing (waveform dumping) of signals. Future versions will need this switch to disable trace incompatible optimizations.
Minor:
- Optimize common replication operations.
- Fix several tracing bugs
Major:
BETA VERSION, USE 3.124 for stable release!
Version 3.2XX includes an all new back-end. This includes automatic inlining, flattening of signals between hierarchy, and complete ordering of statements. This results in 60-300% execution speedups, though less pretty C++ output. Even better results are possible using GCC 3.2.2 (part of Redhat 9.1), as GCC has fixed some optimization problems which Verilator exposes.
If you are using `systemc_ctor, beware pointers to submodules are now initialized after the constructor is called for a module, to avoid segfaults, move statements that reference subcells into initial statements.
C++ Constructor that creates a verilog module may take a char* name. This name will be used to prefix any $display %m arguments, so users may distinguish between multiple Verilated modules in a single executable.
Minor:
- Optimize bit replications
Major:
- An optimized executable will be made by default, in addition to a debug executable. Invoking Verilator with --debug will pick the debug version.
Minor:
- Many minor invisible changes to support the next version.
Minor:
- Wide bus performance enhancements.
- Fix function call bug when width warning suppressed. [Leon Wildman]
- Fix __DOT__ compile problem with funcs in last revision. [Leon Wildman]
Major:
- Modules which are accessed from external code now must be marked with /verilator public_module/ unless they already contain public signals. To enforce this, private cell names now have a string prepended.
Minor:
- Fix replicated function calls in one statement. [Robert A. Clark]
- Fix function call bug when width warning suppressed. [Leon Wildman]
Minor:
- Support multiplication over 32 bits. [Chris Boumenot] Also improved speed of addition and subtraction over 32 bits.
- Detect bit selection out of range errors.
- Detect integer width errors.
- Fix width problems on function arguments. [Robert A. Clark]
Minor:
- $finish now exits the model (via vl_finish function).
- Support inputs/outputs in tasks.
- Support V2K "integer int = {INITIAL_VALUE};"
- Ignore floating point delay values. [Robert A. Clark]
- Ignore `celldefine, `endcelldefine, etc. [Robert A. Clark]
- Optimize reduction operators.
- Fix converting "ooo" into octal values.
- Fix $display("%x");
Minor:
- Fix functions in continuous assignments. [Robert A. Clark]
- Fix inlining of modules with 2-level deep outputs.
Minor:
- Fix declaration of functions before using that module. [Robert A. Clark]
- Fix module inlining bug with outputs.
Major:
- Support Verilog 2001 style input/output declarations. [Robert A. Clark]
- Support local vars in headers of function/tasks. [Leon Wildman]
Major:
- Support local variables in named begin blocks. [Leon Wildman]
Major:
- Support functions.
Minor:
- Signals 8 bits and shorter are now stored as chars instead of uint32_t's. This improves Dcache packing and improves performance by ~7%.
- $display now usually results in a single VL_PRINT rather then many.
- Optimize conditionals (?:)
Major:
- --private and --l2name are now the default, as this enables additional optimizations. Use --noprivate or --nol2name to get the older behavior.
Minor:
- Now support $display of binary and wide format data.
- Add detection of incomplete case statements, and added related optimizations worth ~4%.
- Work around flex bug in Redhat 8.0. [Eugene Weber]
- Add some additional C++ reserved words.
- Additional constant optimizations, ~5% speed improvement.
Major:
- $c can now take multiple expressions as arguments. For example $c("foo","bar(",32+1,");") will insert "foobar(33);" This makes it easier to pass the values of signals.
- Several changes to support future versions that may have signal-eliminating optimizations. Users should try to use these switch on designs, they will become the default in later versions.
- Add --private switch and /verilator public/ metacomment. This renames all signals so that compile errors will result if any signals referenced by C++ code are missing a /verilator public/ metacomment.
- With --l2name, the second level cell C++ cell is now named "v". Previously it was named based on the name of the verilog code. This means to get to signals, scope to "{topcell} ->v ->{mysignal}" instead of "{topcell} ->{verilogmod}. {mysignal}". This allows different modules to be substituted for the cell without requiring source changes.
Minor:
- Several cleanups for Redhat 8.0.
Minor:
- Fix more GCC 3.2 errors. [David Black]
Major:
- Indicate direction of ports with VL_IN and VL_OUT.
- Allow $c32, etc, to specify width of the $c statement for VCS.
- Numerous performance improvements, worth about 25%
Minor:
- Fix false "indent underflow" error inside `systemc_ctor sections.
- Fix missing ordering optimizations when outputs also used internally.
- Assign constant cell pins in initial blocks rather then every cycle.
- Promote subcell's combo logic to sequential evaluation when possible.
- Fix GCC 3.2 compile errors. [Narayan Bhagavatula]
Minor:
- Fix missing model evaluation when clock generated several levels of hierarchy across from where it is used as a clock. [Richard Myers]
- Fix sign-extension bug introduced in 3.102.
Minor:
- Fix sign-extension of X/Z's ("32'hx")
Minor:
- Fix 'parameter FOO=#'bXXXX' [Richard Myers]
- Allow spaces inside numbers ("32'h 1234") [Sam Gladstone]
Major:
- Support for simple tasks w/o vars or I/O. [Richard Myers]
Minor:
- Ignore DOS carriage returns in Linux files. [Richard Myers]
Minor:
- Fix parsing bug with casex statements containing case items with bit extracts of parameters. [Richard Myers]
- Fix bug which could cause writes of non-power-of-2 sized arrays to corrupt memory beyond the size of the array. [Dan Lussier]
- Fix bug which did not detect UNOPT problems caused by submodules. See the description in the verilator man page. [John Deroo]
- Fix compile with threaded Perl. [Ami Keren]
Major:
- Support SystemC 2.0.1. SystemPerl version 1.130 or newer is required.
Minor:
- Fix bug with inlined modules under other inlined modules. [Scott Bleiweiss]
Minor:
- Fix X's in case (not casex/z) to constant propagate correctly.
- Fix missing include. [Kurachi]
Minor:
- Add module_inline metacomment and associated optimizations.
- Allow coverage_block_off metacomment in place of `coverage_block_off. This prevents problems with Emacs AUTORESET. [Ray Strouble]
- Fix `coverage_block_off also disabling subsequent blocks.
- Fix unrolling of loops with multiple simple statements.
- Fix compile warnings on newer GCC. [Kurachi]
- Additional concatenation optimizations.
Minor:
- Now compiles on Windows 2000 with Cygwin.
- Fix bug with pin assignments to wide memories.
- Optimize wire assignments to constants.
Major:
- First public release of version 3.
Major:
- All new code base. Many changes too numerous to mention.
Minor:
- Approximately 4 times faster then Verilator 2.
- Support initial statements
- Support correct blocking/nonblocking assignments
- Support `defines across multiple modules
- Optimize call ordering, constant propagation, and dead code elimination.
Major:
- All applications must now link against include/verilated.cpp
Minor:
- Paths specified to verilator_make should be absolute, or be formed to allow for execution in the object directory (prepend ../ to each path.) This allows relative filenames for makes which hash and cache dependencies.
- Add warning when parameter constants are too large. [John Deroo]
- Add warning when x/?'s used in non-casez statements.
- Add warning when blocking assignments used in posedge blocks. [Dan Lussier]
- Split evaluation function into clocked and non-clocked, 20% perf gain.
Major:
- Add coverage analysis. In conjunction with SystemC provide line coverage reports, without SystemC, provide a hook to user written accumulation function. See --coverage option of verilator_make.
Minor:
- Relaxed multiply range checking
- Support for constants up to 128 bits
- Randomize values used when assigning to X's.
- Add -guard option of internal testing.
- Changed indentation in emitted code to be automatically generated.
- Fix corruption of assignments of signal over 32 bits with non-0 lsb.
Major:
- Add $c("c_commands();"); for embedding arbitrary C code in Verilog.
Major:
- Support for parameters.
Major:
- Verilog Errors now reference the .v file rather then the .vpp file.
Minor:
- Support strings in assignments: reg [31:0] foo = "STRG";
- Support %m in format strings. Ripped out old $info support, use Verilog-Perl's vpm program instead.
- Convert $stop to call of v_stop() which user can define.
- Fix bug where a==b==c would have wrong precedence rule.
- Fix bug where XNOR on odd-bit-widths (~^ or ^~) had bad value.
Major:
- New test_sp directory for System-Perl (SystemC) top level instantiation of the Verilated code, lower modules are still C++ code. (Experimental).
- New test_spp directory for Pure System-Perl (SystemC) where every module is true SystemC code. (Experimental)
Minor:
- Input ports are now loaded by pointer reference into the sub-cell. This is faster on I-386 machines, as the stack must be used when there are a large number of parameters. Also, this simplifies debugging as the value of input ports exists for tracing.
- Many code cleanups towards standard C++ style conventions.
Minor:
- Many code cleanups towards standard C++ style conventions.
[Versions 0 to 1.8 were by Paul Wasson] * Fix single bit in concat from instance output incorrect offset bug.
- Mask unused bits of DONTCAREs.
- Add fasttrace script
- Pass structure pointer into translated code, so multiple instances can use same functions.
- Fix static value concat on casex items.
- Bug fixes, added verimake_partial script, performance improvements.
- Initial release of Verilator
- First code written.
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