This is necessary for consistency, since for transparent read ports,
we currently do not support .en at all (it is fixed at 1) due to
YosysHQ/yosys#760. Before this commit, changing port transparency
would require adding or removing an assignment to .en, which is
confusing and error-prone.
Also, most read ports are always enabled, so this behavior is also
convenient.
Also, replace `bits, sign = x.shape()` with more idiomatic
`width, signed = x.shape()`.
This unifies all properties corresponding to `len(x)` to `x.width`.
(Not all values have a `width` property.)
Fixes#210.
This obscure functionality was likely only ever used in old MiSoC
code, and doesn't justify the added complexity. It was also not
provided (and could not be reasonably provided) in SyncFIFOBuffered,
which made its utility extremely marginal.
Platform.prepare() was completely broken after addition of local
clock domains, and only really worked before by a series of
accidents because there was a circular dependency between creation
of missing domains, fragment preparation, and insertion of pin
subfragments.
This commit untangles the dependency by adding a separate public
method Fragment.create_missing_domains(), used in build.plat.
It also makes DomainCollector consider both used and defined domains,
such that it will work on fragments before domain propagation, since
create_missing_domains() can be called by user code before prepare().
The fragment driving missing clock domain is not flattened anymore,
because flattening does not work well combined with local domains.
The elaboratable is already likely driving the clk/rst signals in
some way appropriate for the platform; if we expose them as ports
nevertheless it will cause problems downstream.
This pattern usually produces an extremely hard to notice bug that
will usually break a design when it is triggered, but will also be
hidden unless the pathological value of a boolean switch is used.
Fixes#159.
This is useful when most attributes in a large composite resource
are the same, but a few signals are different, and also when building
abstractions around resources.
Fixes#128.