All components (e.g., fields, registers, addrmaps) are now children
of a common class Component. This common class has certain common
methods such as get_ports(), get_rtl(), or create_logger().
The AddrMap is now prepared to support alias registers by saving the
registers in a dictionary. That way, registers can easily be accessed
once an alias to a register is found. Furthermore, the addrmap template
is now also loaded from a YAML file. Lastly, the first preparements to
insert ports into the addrmap module are made.
For templates, the indents do not need to be added anymore to the
template. Now, a seperate method will automatically indent the RTL
based on simple rules (e.g., increment indent if `begin` is found).
The CLI also supports settings for the tabs (i.e., real tabs or spaces
and the tab width).
A lot of functionality from the __init__() method of the field class
got reorganized. More logic will be reorganized in the future.
Previously, the SystemVerilog was simply written to the shell. This
started to become too long to be readable. Now, the application dumps
everything to the output directory that is defined on the command line
(or the default).
Temporary workaround: the AddrMap component's RTL is completely
overwritten by the Register's RTL. This is temporary until the AddrMap
also uses a YAML file.
This mechanism has custom coloring, support to dump in file and
on the commandline and support to turn either or both off. cli/cli.py
provies a function that can be called in each module to instantiate
a logger for that module.
Dennis Potter