Richard Lin

Improving threading performance

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ZIO? Akka? I've heard that Scala prefers Monads / etc for the problems that coroutines solve. Need to do more research into options to speed up the concurrency.

RFC: re-using compiled testbenches

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This seems to be the most in-demand feature request... Here, I'll sketch out several ideas with trade-offs, and we'll see if we can figure out how useful each one is....

Allow peeking internal signals

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Resolution from chisel-dev 2/8: should be able to peek internal signals, optionally needing an annotation to avoid DCE

Test configurations

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This arose out of support for `-DwriteVcd=1` in ScalaTest being broken, and whether that breakage was intentional or not. At the chisel-dev meeting, this turned into a longer discussion about...

Tracking issue.

Support for post-syn testing

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Apparently a requirement for practically building chips. Ideas: - Support for using blackbox as the module passed into a test() function, so that we don't need to re-elaborate to Chisel...

Should return a Bundle literal.

Have checks happen on the poke, instead of in bulk at the end of the timestep. And other cleanup.

Adding another item from past dev meetings.

Implement expectHold

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This would check some signal holds for the duration of the enclosing timescope. Checks are made between timeslots (right before the clock edge) and handled by infrastructure. Motivating case is...