This Arch API dates from when we were first working out how to
implement placement validity checking, and in practice is little used by
the core parts of placer1/HeAP and the Arch implementation involves a
lot of duplication with isBelLocationValid.
In the short term; placement validity checking is better served by the
combination of checkBelAvail and isValidBelForCellType before placement;
followed by isBelLocationValid after placement (potentially after
moving/swapping multiple cells).
Longer term, removing this API makes things a bit cleaner for a new
validity checking API.
Signed-off-by: gatecat <gatecat@ds0.me>
This is a basic implementation, without considering "M of N"
arrangements (e.g. for LUT permuation where you only want to route to 1
out of 4/6 sinks) or using a type other than IdString to identify bel
pins.
But this is also enough to start working out where in nextpnr will break
due to removing the 1:1 cell:bel pin cardinality, as a next step.
Signed-off-by: gatecat <gatecat@ds0.me>
Single argument constructors will silently convert to that type. This
is typically not the right thing to do. For example, the nexus and
ice40 arch_pybindings.h files were incorrectly parsing bel name strings,
etc.
Signed-off-by: Keith Rothman <537074+litghost@users.noreply.github.com>
