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Accessing signals of the simulation

Read and write signals

Each interface signal of the toplevel can be read and written from Scala:

Syntax

Description

Bool.toBoolean

Read a hardware Bool as a Scala Boolean value

Bits/UInt/SInt.toInt

Read a hardware BitVector as a Scala Int value

Bits/UInt/SInt.toLong

Read a hardware BitVector as a Scala Long value

Bits/UInt/SInt.toBigInt

Read a hardware BitVector as a Scala BigInt value

SpinalEnumCraft.toEnum

Read a hardware SpinalEnumCraft as a Scala SpinalEnumElement value

Bool #= Boolean

Assign a hardware Bool from an Scala Boolean

Bits/UInt/SInt #= Int

Assign a hardware BitVector from a Scala Int

Bits/UInt/SInt #= Long

Assign a hardware BitVector from a Scala Long

Bits/UInt/SInt #= BigInt

Assign a hardware BitVector from a Scala BigInt

SpinalEnumCraft #= SpinalEnumElement

Assign a hardware SpinalEnumCraft from a Scala SpinalEnumElement

dut.io.a #= 42
dut.io.a #= 42l
dut.io.a #= BigInt("101010", 2)
dut.io.a #= BigInt("0123456789ABCDEF", 16)
println(dut.io.b.toInt)

Accessing signals inside the component’s hierarchy

To access signals which are inside the component’s hierarchy, you have first to set the given signal as simPublic.

You can add this simPublic tag directly in the hardware description:

object SimAccessSubSignal {
  import spinal.core.sim._

  class TopLevel extends Component {
    val counter = Reg(UInt(8 bits)) init(0) simPublic() // Here we add the simPublic tag on the counter register to make it visible
    counter := counter + 1
  }

  def main(args: Array[String]) {
    SimConfig.compile(new TopLevel).doSim{dut =>
      dut.clockDomain.forkStimulus(10)

      for(i <- 0 to 3) {
        dut.clockDomain.waitSampling()
        println(dut.counter.toInt)
      }
    }
  }
}

Or you can add it later, after having instantiated your toplevel for the simulation:

object SimAccessSubSignal {
  import spinal.core.sim._
  class TopLevel extends Component {
    val counter = Reg(UInt(8 bits)) init(0)
    counter := counter + 1
  }

  def main(args: Array[String]) {
    SimConfig.compile {
      val dut = new TopLevel
      dut.counter.simPublic()
      dut
    }.doSim{dut =>
      dut.clockDomain.forkStimulus(10)

      for(i <- 0 to 3) {
        dut.clockDomain.waitSampling()
        println(dut.counter.toInt)
      }
    }
  }
}