modelling. [Couriersud]
Added global NETLIST.DEFAULT_MOS_CAPMODEL parameter. Setting this to
zero disables using capitance modelling in mos models.
On a per mos device basis this can be achieved by adding CAPMODEL=0 to
the model definition, e.g. MOSFET(X, "NMOS(CAPMODEL=0)")
Improve MOSFET convergence by using log-stepping.
This is a significant improvement to the MOS transistor model. It adds
modelling of the Meyer capacitance model.
This is a somewhat academic addition since the effects occur on a
nanosecond time scale and have a huge impact on performance. I plan to
make the capacitance model selectable. Both on a model level as well as
by introducing a global solver parameter.
The model delivers comparable results to LTSpice.
This effectively reverts b380514764 and
c24473ddff, restoring the state at
598cd52272.
Before pushing, please check that what you're about to push is sane.
Check your local commit log and ensure there isn't anything out-of-place
before pushing to mainline. When things like this happen, it wastes
everyone's time. I really don't need this in a week when real work™ is
busting my balls and I'm behind where I want to be with preparing for
MAME release.
Memory management in plib is now alignment-aware. All allocations
respect c++11 alignas. Selected classes like parray and aligned_vector
also provide hints (__builtin_assume_aligned) to g++ and clang.
The alignment optimizations have little impact on the current use cases.
They only become effective on bigger data processing.
What has a measurable impact is memory pooling. This speeds up netlist
games like breakout and pong by about 5%.
Tested with linux, macosx and windows cross builds. All features are
disabled since I can not rule out they may temporarily break more exotic
builds.
Set USE_MEMPOOL to 1 to try this (max 5% performance increase).
For mingw, there is no alignment support. This triggers -Wattribute
errors which due to -Werror crash the build.
At least on macosx memory used by an object seems to be invalidated
before the dtor is executed. This of course is deadly for child objects
with references to the parent-in-deletion which may call back into the
parent.
One of the worst issues I had to fix. Ever. Lesson learnt: No tricks in
dtors. Never.
- convert macros to c++ code.
- order of device creation should not depend on std lib.
- some state saving cleanup.
- added support for clang-tidy to makefile.
- modifications triggered by clang-tidy-9.
- Removed dead code.
- nltool now adds a define NLTOOL_VERSION. This can be tested in
netlists. It is used in kidniki to ensure I stop committing
debug parameters.
- Optimized the proposal for no-deactivate hints.
- Documented in breakout that hints were manually optimized.
- Minor optimizations in the order of 2% enhancement.
This is an effort to separate netlist creation from netlist execution.
The primary target is to avoid that code which will only run during
execution is able to call setup code and thus create ugly hacks.
This change removes all string extensions like trim, rpad, left, right,
... from pstring and replaces them by function templates.
This aligns a lot better with the intentions of the standard library.
- more use of c++ features
- some CRTP in pfmtlog
- demangled code for truthtables
- use more constexpr
- rewrite main loop
- use default constructors and assignment operators were applicable.
- optimized 7448 and 9316
All of this has decreased startup time by approx. 25% to 30%. Complex
netlists like pong or kidniki are parsed, analyzed and constructed in
around 15 ms. Run performance has increased by about 5%.
All in all not to bad. A game like pong uses a clock of 7 MHz (after
division by 2). Thats 14 MHz clock invocations. Running at over 200%, 28
MHz. On a 3.9 GHz Machine about 140 cycles/clock change.
[Couriersud]
pstring:
- added support for UTF16LE to pstring.
- renamed size() to mem_t_size()
- renmaed len() to length()
- added size() == length()
- added empty()
- added simple compare()
pfmtlog:
- Simplified pfmtlog, added more c++
pdynlib:
- add a dynproc type to dynlib to wrap dynamic library calls.
various:
- fix two coverty scan issue.
- various clang warnings fixed.
(nw)
This removes all allocation code from pstring. const_iterator is
consequently now based on pstring::const_iterator.
Removed pstring_buffer. This was class wasn't a good idea.
Vas was right: This change did not impact runtime performance. Startup
performance (string intensive) increased. (nw)
There are a few changes to achieve this:
* Rename to const_iterator since it's immutable
* Typedef iterator to const_iterator for now as there's no mutable iterator
* Add default constrcutor and operator-> required by concept, const-qualify operators
* Remove operator+ and operator+= since it's not a random-access iterator (use std::next and std::advance instead)
* Return reference/pointer to a proxy rather than a code_t value from opertator*/operator->
The final change is required to meet the requirement that operator* for
two equivalent forward iterators return an equivalent reference. The
pstring doesn't actually contain a sequence of code_t, so there's no way
to return a reference to code_t directly. Instead, a reference to a
proxy object aliased on the string storage is returned. The proxy is
implicitly convertible to code_t. The most noticeable side effect is
that auto c = *s.begin() or for (auto c : s) won't work. You need to do
for (auto &c : s) or for (code_t c : s) instead.
- Fixed crashes on terminals without nets (i.e. connected to a rail)
- Reviewed "FIXMEs" and corrected some minor ones.
- Made m_cur_analog protected.
- Fixed pmf delegates to work with msvc.
- More optimizations to the solver code.
- Started work on a better signal pipeline in nlwav
- Only generate documentation for entities which are documented.
[Couriersud]
Device implementations (all cpp files in netlist/devices) now should
only include nl_base.h.
Netlist implementation sources should only include "net_lib.h".
Refactored netlist.h and netlist.cpp to avoid namespace congestion in
netlist.h.
Fixed VC2015 build. (nw)
- Remove virtual from some destructors and make them protected.
- Various cleanups.
- Small performance improvement.
- Fixed some inconsistencies.
- More c++ refactoring. (nw)
Make streams provide binary access only. Use putf8_reader and
putf8_writer to actually access streams. Replace some char * parameters
with pstring where appropriate. Minor code refactoring and move
functionality were it belongs. (nw)
