This can cause confusion:
* If the erroneous object is None, it is printed as 'None', which
appears as a string (and could be the result of converting None
to a string.)
* If the erroneous object is a string, it is printed as ''<val>'',
which is a rather strange combination of quotes.
Since we use hertz elsewhere, this provides for easy conversions.
Also, cast the delay to string before applying it in xilinx_7series,
to avoid stripping the fractional digits.
Closes#234.
Such clock domains will "leak" into the enclosing scope, which is
generally undesirable. Also, this is instructive for a platform
overriding the behavior, since it provides guidance on how to
correctly instantiate platform-specific flops.
I've considered also doing this for MultiReg(), but it is very
challenging in presence of non-reset-less CDC FFs, since Yosys'
$dffsr primitive has separate set and clear inputs, and reshuffling
the reset value for those results in quite a bit of additional logic.
(That said, it might have to be done anyway, precisely because
letting Yosys generate this additional logic might prove too much
for the toolchain to cope with, and again, platform-independent
code should provide guidance to platform-specific code.)