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Copyright for portions of sv2v are held by Tom Hawkins, 2011-2015, as part of
tomahawkins/verilog. Copyright for all other portions of sv2v are held by
Zachary Snow, 2019.
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# sv2v: SystemVerilog to Verilog
sv2v is a tool for converting SystemVerilog ([IEEE 1800-2017]) to ([IEEE
1364-2005]), with an emphasis on supporting synthesizable SystemVerilog
features. This project was originally developed to target [Yosys], and so allows
for disabling the conversion of those [SystemVerilog features which Yosys
supports].
sv2v converts SystemVerilog ([IEEE 1800-2017]) to Verilog ([IEEE 1364-2005]),
with an emphasis on supporting synthesizable language constructs.
[IEEE 1800-2017]: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/servlet/opac?punumber=8299593
[IEEE 1364-2005]: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/servlet/opac?punumber=10779
The primary goal of this project is to create a completely free and open-source
tool for converting SystemVerilog to Verilog. While methods for performing this
conversion already exist, they generally either rely on commercial tools, or are
pretty incomplete.
This project was originally developed to target [Yosys], and so allows for
disabling the conversion of those [SystemVerilog features which Yosys supports].
[Yosys]: http://www.clifford.at/yosys/
[SystemVerilog features which Yosys supports]: https://github.com/YosysHQ/yosys#supported-features-from-systemverilog
## Dependencies
All of sv2v's dependencies are free and open-source.
* Build Dependencies
* [Haskell Stack](https://www.haskellstack.org/) - Haskell build system
* Haskell dependencies are managed in `sv2v.cabal`
* Test Dependencies
* [Icarus Verilog](http://iverilog.icarus.com) - for Verilog simulation
* [shUnit2](https://github.com/kward/shunit2) - test framework
## Installation
### Pre-built binaries
We plan on releasing pre-built binaries in the near future.
We plan on releasing pre-built binaries in the future.
### Building from source
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make
```
This creates the executable at `./bin/sv2v` You can install the binary by
This creates the executable at `./bin/sv2v`. You can install the binary by
running `stack install`.
## Usage
The interface for this tool has not yet been finalized. Currently, running `sv2v
path/to/file.sv` will output the converted file to `stdout`.
sv2v takes in a list of files and prints the converted Verilog to `stdout`.
Users may specify include search paths, define macros during preprocessing, and
exclude some of the conversion.
Below is the current usage printout. This interface is subject to change.
```
sv2v [OPTIONS] [FILES]
Common flags:
-e --exclude=CONV conversion to exclude (always, interface, logic);
can be specified multiple times
-e --exclude=CONV exclude a particular conversion (always,
interface, logic)
-i --incdir=DIR add directory to include search path
-d --define=NAME[=VALUE] define value for compilation
-d --define=NAME[=VALUE] define a macro for preprocessing
-? --help Display help message
-V --version Print version information
--numeric-version Print just the version number
```
## SystemVerilog Parser/AST
## SystemVerilog Frontend
This project contains a basic preprocessor, lexer, parser, and abstract syntax
tree for a subset of synthesizable SystemVerilog. The parser is not extremely
strict, and the AST allows for the representation of syntactically (and
This project contains a preprocessor and lexer, a parser, and an abstract syntax
tree representation for a subset of the SystemVerilog specification. The parser
is not very strict. The AST allows for the representation of syntactically (and
semantically) invalid Verilog. The goal is to be more general in the
representation to enable more standardized and straightforward conversion
procedures. This could be extended into an independent and more fully-featured
parser if there is significant interest.
frontend if there is significant interest.
## Testing
The current test suite is limited. Tests can be run with `make test`.
## License
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defaultJob :: Job
defaultJob = Job
{ exclude = [] &= typ "CONV"
&= help
("conversion to exclude (always, interface, logic)"
++ "; can be specified multiple times")
&= help "exclude a particular conversion (always, interface, logic)"
, files = def &= args &= typ "FILES"
, incdir = def &= typDir &= help "add directory to include search path"
, define = def &= typ "NAME[=VALUE]" &= help "define value for compilation"
, define = def &= typ "NAME[=VALUE]" &= help "define a macro for preprocessing"
}
&= program "sv2v"
&= summary "sv2v v0.0.1, (C) Zachary Snow 2019, Tom Hawkins, 2011-2015"
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