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  • June 22, 2017 at 12:04 #1387
    Nikolay
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    Hi,

    Is it possible to reduce next code:

         A <= RndA.DistValSlv(
           ((0,5),
            (1,1),(2,1),(3,1),(4,1),
            (5,1),(6,1),(7,1),(8,1),(9,1),
            (10,1),(11,1),(12,1),(13,1),(14,1),
            (15,5)), A'length);

    I need to set Weight for range. For example in SV it looks like this:

    a dist {0 := 5, [1:4] /= 5, [5:9] /=5, [10:14] /= 5, 15 := 5}

    Thanks,

    Nikolai

    June 26, 2017 at 01:51 #1389
    Eilert Backhus
    Member

    Hi Nicolai,

    the argument type of DistValSlv is an array with a record of two integers.

    I wonder wether the range notation can work here too.

    It wold look somewhat like this:

    A <= RndA.DistValSlv(
           ((0,5),
            (1 to 14,1),
            (15,5)), A'length);

    If this works not, maybe a function with a case statement can help.

    In the function you then write sth. like this:

    for position in 0 to 15 loop — 15 might come from some ‘lengh calculation
      case position is
        when 0 =>  ReturnVal(position,5);
        when 1 to 14 =>ReturnVal(position,1);
        when 15 =>ReturnVal(position,5);
      end case;
    end loop
    return ReturnVal;

    Unless there isn’t some better solution, this might at least be a useful  workaround for the moment.

    (edit:) But actualy that won’t reduce the code much, unless you have a really big array of random constraints.

    Have a nice simulation

      Eilert

    June 28, 2017 at 19:38 #1393
    Jim Lewis
    Member

    Hi Nikolai,

    There is a simpler form of DistValSlv that returns values in the range of its argument, which is 0 to 15 if the argument is a literal or aggregate:

         A <= RndA.DistSlv((5, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 5), A'length) ;

    If you prefer, you can also use named association:

         A <= RndA.DistSlv((0=>5, 1=>1, 2=>1, 3=>1, 4=>1, 5=>1, 6=>1,
                            7=>1, 8=>1, 9=>1, 10=>1, 11=>1, 12=>1,
                            13=>1, 14=>1, 15=>5), A'length) ;

    With named association, you can also do the following:

         A <= RndA.DistSlv((0=>5, 1 to 14 =>1, 15=>5), A'length) ;


    You can also do this with a coverage model:

         shared variable ACov : CovPType ;
         . . .
         process
         begin
           ACov.AddBins(5, GenBin(0)) ;
           ACov.AddBins(1, GenBin(1,14)) ;
           ACov.AddBins(5, GenBin(15)) ;

           . . .
           A <= ACov.RandCovPoint ;
           ACov.ICoverLast ;

    Jim


    June 28, 2017 at 22:58 #1396
    Nikolay
    Member

    Hi Eilert, Jim,

    Thank you for the answers. They are very useful for me.

    Nikolai

    June 28, 2017 at 23:11 #1398
    Eilert Backhus
    Member

    Hi Jim,

    I hoped that there’s some solution using the range notation like you showed:

    With named association, you can also do the following:

         A <= RndA.DistSlv((0=>5, 1 to 14 =>1, 15=>5), A'length) ;

    I just didn’t expect it to be so straight simple, since the defined type is self defined.
    You mentioned integer_vectors somewhere else. Are these defined internally in a similar way as DistValSlv is? Does this kind of assignment work with integer_vectors too?

    Kind regards
      Eilert

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