[chiselsim] Add SimulatorAPI, reduce DefaultSimulator to nothing #4680
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Add a new
SimulatorAPI
trait which provides methods for runningsimulations. This will submsume the existing
DefaultSimulator.simulate
method and extends it with an "ABI" for how to startup simulations of
Chisel-generated Verilog.
This API includes two methods:
simulateRaw -- This is only usable with
RawModule
s where there isno information about the clock and reset. This is the same as
DefaultSimulator.simulate
.simulate -- This is only usable with
Module
s where there is adefined clock and reset. This is the method which implements an "ABI"
startup sequence which avoids problems with simulators, time zero
behavior, and race conditions.
Remove all methods from
DefaultSimulator
and replace them with methodsprovided by the
SimulatorAPI
. This is change to the unreleasedsimulate
method forDefaultSimulator
in that this will now require aModule
and uses the standard ABI bringup procedure.EphemeralSimulator
is left unchanged.Release Notes
Add a new ChiselSim trait,
SimulatorAPI
, which adds methods for running simulations.