[Libre-soc-dev] video assembler

[Lauri Kasanen]

On Mon, 10 May 2021 12:58:38 +0100
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net> wrote:

> > > it parses the SVP64 assembler format and turns it into prefix-suffix, i
> > > think proceeding with that and writing pure assembler functions is
> > probably
> > > the way to break the critical path dependency.
> > >
> > > what's your thoughts?
> >
> > It seems to be a translator, encoding the svp stuff as .long whatever.
>
>
> yes, which both the python emulator and hardware simulator understand.
>
> if you can run unit tests on the python emulator (which is easy to do) i
> can run the hardware simulator (which is harder to do)

What is the state of these simulators? Are they complete,
cycle-accurate, reporting the executed cycles?

- Lauri