Register field ordering is broken.

[sjalloq]

The RDL spec shows how fields are packed in a register on p.44 of the v1.0 spec. In the case of LSB ordering, the following should hold:

lsb0;
reg {
field {} A; // Single bit from 0 to 0
field {} B[3]; // 3 bits from 3:1
// 4 bits from 7 to 4 are reserved and unused
field {} C[15:8]; // 8 Bits from 15 to 8
field {} C[5]; // 5 Bits from 20 to 16
};

However, this doesn't appear to be the case with Ordt. My understanding from the above example is that the following register:

reg irq_reg_6 { 
    regwidth = 16 ;
    interrupt _init_done ;
    interrupt _tc_ready ;
    interrupt _temp_low_warn[4:4] ;
    interrupt _temp_high_warn ;
    interrupt _temp_low_alarm ;
    interrupt _temp_high_alarm ;
};

should result in a packed register of the form:

Bit 0 : init_done Bit 1: tc_ready Bit 2 : reserved Bit 3 : reserved Bit 4 : temp_low_warn Bit 5 : temp_high_warn Bit 6 : temp_low_alarm Bit 7 : temp_high_alarm

Ordt is outputting the following:

Bit 0 : init done Bit 1: tc_ready Bit 2 : temp_high_warn Bit 3 : temp_low_alarm Bit 4 : temp_low_warn Bit 5 : temp_high_alarm

[sdnellen]

Yes, ordt will pack fields with no assigned offset in first available space in the reg starting from lsb. Spec was somewhat ambiguous here so implementation may differ from other compilers - given volume of code out there, default behavior will not be changed. Might be worth adding a switch at some point, but solution for now is to use bit offsets when instancing fields.

[sdnellen]

Kamino cloned this issue to sdnellen/open-register-design-tool