verilog-XL global force or reset

Discussion in 'Cadence' started by danmc, Apr 18, 2006.

  1. danmc

    danmc Guest

    Hello,

    I'm trying to use verilog-XL to simulate a circuit from within the
    Verilog-XL Integration for Composer environment. My schematic includes
    instances of flip-flops from a standard cell library that do not have
    any sort of reset pin. My circuit includes several things like
    flip-flops configured as divide by two blocks. The problem of course
    is that initially the output is an 'x' and since the input comes from
    the output, the 'x' never resolves into known logic states. There are
    quite a few of these at several different levels of the hierarchy so it
    would be a huge amount of effort to enumerate all of the nodes into a
    huge list of force/release lines.

    So my question is if there is a way in verilog-XL to globally tell it
    that all reg's should be set to 0 initially (or 1, I don't really care,
    it really doesn't matter what state this thing comes up in for my
    simulation or in real hardware).

    Again, its not like I'm generating a flip-flop with something like

    always @posedge(clk) begin
    d <= ~d;
    end

    where I could modify it to have a reset for simulation puposes.


    I have stuff more like this:

    DFFX1 I1 (.CLK(clk), .Q(q), .D(d));
    INVX1 I2 (.Y(d), .A(q));

    and DFFX1 and INVX1 are from the standard cell library I have to work
    with. In other words its just a verilog netlist as opposed to a
    synthesizeable behavioural description.

    Thanks
    -Dan
     
    danmc, Apr 18, 2006
    #1
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