[Libre-soc-dev] synchronised incremental SV development planning

[Cesar Strauss]

On 01/22/2021 09:29, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> great!  i can cover ISACaller.  i wonder, hmm, if to keep the
> lock-step and be able to compare, i have a feeling it's going to need
> to also be done as a FSM in ISACaller and power-gem5.
> 
> the reason is that the testing system compares regfiles (and memory)
> based on a single step of running a single instruction.  if ISACaller
> does the *entire* loop but TestIssuer does only one, they are now
> out-of-sync.

Would it make sense to compare these only at the end of the vector
instruction, when the loop has finished in both ISACaller and TestIssuer?

Cesar