Two user-visible changes were made:
* `-DUSE_RUST` is replaced with `-DBUILD_RUST`, by analogy with
`-DBUILD_PYTHON`
* `-DCOVERAGE` was removed as it doesn't work with either modern GCC
or Clang
While it served a purpose (granting the ability to build `.bba` files
separately from the rest of nextpnr), it made things excessively
convoluted, especially around paths.
This commit removes the ability to pre-generate chip databases. As far
as I know, I was the primary user of that feature. It can be added back
if there is demand for it.
In exchange the per-family `CMakeLists.txt` files are now much easier
to understand.
When implementing concepts such as partition pins or deliberately split
nets, there's a need for something that looks like a cell (starts/ends
routing with pins on nets, has timing data) but isn't mapped to a fixed
bel in the architecture, but instead can have pin mappings defined at
runtime.
The PseudoCell allows this by providing an alternate, virtual-function
based API for such cells. When a cell has `pseudo_cell` used, instead of
calling functions such as getBelPinWire, getBelLocation or getCellDelay
in the Arch API; such data is provided by the cell itself, fully
flexible at runtime regardless of arch, via methods on the PseudoCell
implementation.
This uses a new data structure for net.users that allows gaps, so
removing a port from a net is no longer an O(n) operation on the number
of users the net has.
Signed-off-by: gatecat <gatecat@ds0.me>
This won't affect Python-built arches significantly; but will be useful
for the future 'viaduct' functionality where generic routing graphs can
be built on the C++ side; too.
Signed-off-by: gatecat <gatecat@ds0.me>
This makes predictDelay be based on an arbitrary belpin pair rather
than a arc of a net based on cell placement. This way 'what-if'
decisions can be evaluated without actually changing placement;
potentially useful for parallel placement.
A new helper predictArcDelay behaves like the old predictDelay to
minimise the impact on existing passes; only arches need be updated.
Signed-off-by: gatecat <gatecat@ds0.me>
