Part Select or Slice implementation in SV

To optimize the following system verilog code:

sample[0] = &dq[7:0];

sample[1] = &dq[15:8];

sample[2] = &dq[23:16];

sample[3] = &dq[31:24];

...

so on for 64-bit packed array dq. This was simplified by using for loop with system verilog slice or part select of packed arrays as:

for (int i=0,j=0; i<ST_W; i+=8, j++) begin //ST_W=DATA_WIDTH/16

sample[j] = &dq[i+:8];

end

The index i represents position of the slicing which is added to a constant 8 to determine the size of part select or slice. Thus, the code can be reused for any data width with reduced code density and easy readability.

GVIM syntax highlight for systemverilog

Gvim syntax file for SystemVerilog & AVM can be downloaded from the following link: http://www.sibridgetech.com/download/systemverilog_avm.zip  

For gvim (portable) installed on windows, the following steps need to be followed:

1. The unzipped file needs to saved in ...\GVimPortable\App\vim\vim71\syntax directory.
2. Then, edit the file ..\GVimPortable\App\vim\vim71\filetype.vim to add the following lines (search line containing "verilog" in the file and insert the below lines beneath it):

" System Verilog
au BufNewFile,BufRead *.sv,*.svh setf systemverilog_avm

3. Close and open any systemverilog file having .sv and/or .svh extension.

TLM in OVM

Here's a very good demonstration of the need and importance of TLM in OVM.

ಅತ್ತು ಅತ್ತು ಮತ್ತತ್ತು

ಯಕ್ಷನ ವಿರಹದಿ೦ದ ಬೆ೦ದ ಯಕ್ಷಿಯ ಚಿತ್ರ - ಬೇ೦ದ್ರೆಯವರ ದೃಷ್ಟಿಯಲಿ  :

ಅತ್ತು ಅತ್ತು ಮತ್ತತ್ತು ಕೆದರಿಕೊ೦ಡಿಹುದು ಕಣ್ಣ ಪೊಗರು
ಬೆಚ್ಚನುಸಿರನು೦ಡು೦ಡು ಸೊಪ್ಪೆಯಾಗಿಹುದು ತುಟಿಯ ಚಿಗುರು
ಗಲ್ಲದಲ್ಲಿ ಕೈ, ಓರೆ ಮೋರೆ, ನಿಡಿಗೂದಳುದ್ದ  ಚಿ೦ತೆ
ಮೋಡ ಮುಸಕಲಿರೆ ಮ೦ಕುಕವಿದ ಆ ದೀನ ಚ೦ದ್ರನ೦ತೆ II

Best poll question ever

Best poll question I've come across (Adult Discretion Advised), which beats even the daily polls by Sagarika "faze the nation" Ghose on CNN-IBN.

Note (DON'T SAY I DIDN'T WARN):

The first link leads to "Adult Discretion Advised" kind of site, so please follow the advise, especially when you are in office. 

Life is Just is

Like a small stone wading thru the water to the depth -- half resisting but willing, half willing but resisting -- all the while following the natural laws, I've let myself go thru new phase of life. I only fulfill the natural laws of life without questioning and without seeking for answers.

Life is neither a question nor an answer to an unknown question. It is just is.

Terrorism LeT loose

Few good articles analysing today's heinous act by Pakistan terrorists:

1. Prem Panicker's take on today's terrorist attack on SL cricketers:
http://www.rediff.com/cricket/2009/mar//03prem-panicker-sri-lanka-team-attacked-in-pakistan.htm

2. B.Raman, India's best defence analyst, hints that this attack might be ordered by LTTE and executed by fringe terrorist-group in Pakistan.
http://ramansterrorismanalysis.blogspot.com/2009/03/hum-repays-old-debt-to-ltte-in-lahore.html

All this after Imran Khan had given strong/personal assurance to India about terrorists not attacking any cricketers if they tour Pakistan.

Memento

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Natalie: ... Even if you get your revenge, you are not gonna remember it, you are not even gonna know that it happened.

Lenny: My wife deserves a vengeance. It doesn't make any difference whether I know about it. Just because there are things that I don't remember, doesn't make my actions are meaningless. The world just doesn't disappear when  you close your eyes, does it? Anyway, maybe I'll take a photograph...

In movie 'Don', zeenat Aman in old/Priyanka Chopra in new, have opposite view on a similar situation. They want Don to recover back his memory before they can have their revenge. They reason it as saying Don should know why exactly he is being killed and also who (she is a sister of one of Don's victim) is killing him. 

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Teddy: You can't trust a man's life to your little notes and pictures

Lenny: Why not?

Teddy: Because, Your notes could be unreliable

Lenny: memories are unreliable

Teddy: Ah... Please...

Lenny: No No No...really. Memories aren't just perfect. They are not even that good. Ask the Police. Eyewitness testimonies are unreliable. Cops don't catch the thieves by sitting around and remembering stuff, right?... They collect facts, they make notes and they draw conclusions. Facts, not memories. That's how you investigate.

Teddy: I know. That's what I used to do.

Lenny: Look, memories can change the shape of the room, it can change the color of a car, and memories can be distorted. They are just an interpretation, they are not a record. And they are irrelevant if you have the facts.

e2sv and the shining

To migrate from 'e' based verification environment to sytem verilog is the possible biggest trend in the coming days. Especially during and immediately after the recession days. So any work done in automating or semi-automating the translation from e to SV could reap benefits.

Beginning from here, let me see how much can I contribute. It is a scary project, but could it be any scarier than this classic horror movie.

youtube link to one of finely crafted scene by Stanley Kubrick and wonderfully enacted by Jack Nicholson

 

shining: the bar scene