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E Gates

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After the mapping phase of an RTL to Gate compare I see compare points that are of type 'E' in the RTL, what are these points? The doc explains that these are TIE-E gates but I'm not exactly sure what this is.


Originally posted in cdnusers.org by broesicke
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    Hi

    E gates are how we model X's in the revised. You shouldn't be seeing them in the RTL since RTL should be read in as the golden design.

    The default settings in Conformal are:

    set x conversion DC -golden
    set x conversion E -revised

    Which means:

    golden revised result
    X X or 0 or 1 pass
    0 0 pass
    1 1 pass
    0 1 or X FAIL
    1 0 or X FAIL

    If you want it more strict, where there is requirement that the don't-care spaces be the same in both designs, you can use:

    set x conversion E -both

    golden revised result
    X X pass
    X 0 or 1 FAIL
    0 0 pass
    1 1 pass
    0 1 or X FAIL
    1 0 or X FAIL

    This would be used, sometimes, for RTL-RTL. Not for RTL-gate nor gate-gate.

    A final warning: you better know what you're doing if you use any other settings for 'set x conversion'. Same warning applies to 'set undriven signal'. You can make the tool too loose very easily.

    Chrystian


    Originally posted in cdnusers.org by croy

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