Renamed cast member of the constants struct to magic to clearly identify
magic numbers.
Introduced nlconst struct inheriting from plib::constants<nl_fptype> to
make code better understandable.
The newly added RELTOL and VNTOL parameters implement Newton convergence
checks comparable following other SPICE implementations.
The ACCURACY solver parameter now is only used for convergence checks in
iterative solvers.
In addition, type safety was significantly improved and a lot of "magic"
numbers are identifiable now.
- Added new solver parameter FPTYPE. This determines in which floating
point domain the linear system is solved. May be one of "FLOAT",
"DOUBLE" or "LONGDOUBLE"
- Added option "--fperr" to nltool. This enables floating point
exceptions. This helps debugging the code under gdb.
The purpose of this going forward is to have more choice in
optimization. Non-dynamic systems should be just fine in the float
domain. Dynamic systems (i.e. diodes, bjts, mosfets) should in general
work with double. Certain edge cases may require long double resolution.
Added ability to compile using float instead of double. Specifically the
the solver as well as the infrastructure now can have their own floating
point type. Currently this is only an academic exercise since
numerically demanding circuits like kidniki only work with double/double
support. Using float here is pushing numerical stability over the
limits.
The long term design goal is too have the matrix type (double/float)
being a parameter.
- solver: align matrix population along the various solvers
- solver: delete dead code
- renamed nl_double to nl_fptype and use nl_fptype where previously
double has been used.
- renamed param_double_t to param_fp_t
- moved netlists out of driver code into audio/ or machine/ as
nl_xxx.cpp files.
- identified and documented extended validation
- updated arcade, mess and nl targets
CMOS 40xx and 4316 power pins fixed.
Also fixed gcc-9 error. clang++ complains about unreachable code in
nl_base.cpp line 480 even if double parantheses are used. Assigning the
define to a local variable and testing this local variable works. Weird.
- converted NL_MAX_LINK_RESOLVE_LOOPS into a netlist parameter.
- Reduced potential bit-rot.
- nltool -v --version now displays values of all compile time defines.
There are still far too many compile time defines. However, most of them
ensure and test future scalability.
This fixes an over simplification. Logic devices implicitly assumed that
GND/VDD actually is connected to GND(i.e. 0V). There is no immediate
benefit from this change. It is a preparation for the future
scalability. Now all power terminals (typically 7/14, 8/16) have to be
explicitly connected to the supply rails.
Also added a validation mode to the netlist core. This is not
intended for running, but solely to better indentify pins which
are not properly connected.
improvements.
- fix MB3614 parameter
- Added VARCLOCK which derives step size from function
- optimized function handling in CS and VS
- fixed a bug in ppreprocessor
- add trunc to pfunction
- added opamp_amplification_curve to derive characteristic
amplification curve
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 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.
Change the sign of go (or in other terms a12 and a21 matrix stencil
elements). This should make further optimization of matrix population
easier.
In addition hopefully improve the readability of the code by sacrifying
overloads for more verbose member names.
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.
startup strategies. This determines the order of device triggering.
0: Full - trigger all delegates. Next all devices not touched.
1: Backwards - trigger all devices backwards (only update delegate)
2: Forward - trigger all devices forward (only update delegate)
- 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]
