Matthew Ballance @bitsbytesgates

Verification methodology by day. Author and open-source developer by night. All opinions my own. github.com/mballance Joined December 2018

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Jose Renau @jrenauardevol

4 years ago

WOSET is next Thursday (11/03/22). Free virtual registration lots of great open source EDA talks. woset-workshop.github.io

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Matthew Ballance @bitsbytesgates

4 years ago

@iamtommythorn @mguthaus @hadirkhan499 @mithro @matthewvenn I think a big question for me is how this syntax composes into something bigger. I get (after some explanation) the adder. What about the equivalent of 2k lines of RTL? Hopefully it’s more RTL-like than gate level

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Matthew Ballance @bitsbytesgates

4 years ago

@wren6991 What tool are you using to generate the program? I’m familiar with riscv-dv, but it sounds like you’re using something else.

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Matthew Ballance @bitsbytesgates

4 years ago

@dnaltews Not sure what your doc system is, but there do seem to be Python and Sphinx wrappers: pypi.org/project/bit-fi… pypi.org/project/sphinx…

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Matthew Ballance @bitsbytesgates

4 years ago

@dnaltews While I haven't used it for a project, bitfield has always looked interesting: github.com/wavedrom/bitfi…

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Dennis Brophy @dennisbrophy

4 years ago

Accellera will host an online workshop to discuss the parallelization of #SystemC simulations on 7 April 2022. The workshop is free but registration is required. lnkd.in/gMbEyf4C

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Matthew Ballance @bitsbytesgates

5 years ago

@amye @Mat__Savage Random, but I love that place!

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Matthew Ballance @bitsbytesgates

5 years ago

@verilab @dvcon_us Excellent session packed with tons of actionable approaches to improve the verification planning and execution process!

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Tom Verbeure @tom_verbeure

5 years ago

GDBWave - A Post-Simulation Waveform-Based RISC-V GDB Debugging Server tomverbeure.github.io/2022/02/20/GDB…

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Matthew Ballance @bitsbytesgates

5 years ago

@mguthaus @Spotify Just tried @TIDAL tonight. Thus far, it’s pretty good. Noticeably better audio quality!

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Matthew Ballance @bitsbytesgates

5 years ago

@davidcelis I’ve found maple syrup works well — for bourbon-based drinks at least

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Matthew Ballance @bitsbytesgates

5 years ago

@wavedrom If you’re thinking about adding transaction viewing to your VCD viewer that would be very interesting.

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Matthew Ballance @bitsbytesgates

5 years ago

@field_hamster @qamcom Congrats!

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Matthew Ballance @bitsbytesgates

5 years ago

@GregDavill @adafruit That's art. Beautiful!

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Mohamed MK @mkkassem

5 years ago

chipIgnite one - up and running in seconds. It is using Caravel with clock mesh patch to address timing issues with metal only changes.

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Matthew Ballance @bitsbytesgates

5 years ago

@SVAssertions @bdmurdock This will enable use cases such as creating a sequence-class instance in Python and passing it to SV to run on a UVM agent. Most important, it should make adding Python to a TB an incremental step. Stay tuned, I expect to begin writing about it soon (in the next month or so)!

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Matthew Ballance @bitsbytesgates

5 years ago

@SVAssertions @bdmurdock I'm currently working on (and have been for about a year) a more ambitious framework to enable simulation-centric cross-calling between languages such as SystemVerilog and Python.

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Matthew Ballance @bitsbytesgates

5 years ago

@SVAssertions @bdmurdock Much of the performance hit in my experience is due to cocotb integrating at the signal level (vs procedure level), and not due to Python itself.