CLOG2 operator

[Risto]

Hello,

I've been using SystemRDL for the last few months, and although I think that the language has a lot of potential, I feel like it is lacking some features.

One of the most surprising missing features for me is $clog2 operator from Verilog.

It is really a common thing to have your parameter be a number and have a field that is adjusted to the width to fit that number.

One way I get around it is by defining a SV style macro and use it like this:

`define CLOG2(VAL) \
    (((VAL) <= 1) ? 0 : \
    ((VAL) <= 2) ? 1 : \
    ((VAL) <= 4) ? 2 : \
    ((VAL) <= 8) ? 3 : \
    ((VAL) <= 16) ? 4 : \
    ((VAL) <= 32) ? 5 : \
    ((VAL) <= 64) ? 6 : \
    ((VAL) <= 128) ? 7 : \
    ((VAL) <= 256) ? 8 : \
    .................. : \ 
    0

This works fine but still feels like this should be a part of the language.

Are you taking feature requests, is it foreseen to have another revision of the standard in the future?

If so I would have more feature requests that I would like to be implemented.

[Richard Weber]

Hello Risto,

The $clog2() function has been part of IP-XACT since the 2014 version.  It was my intention to add the same IP-XACT System Verilog expression capability to SystemRDL.  Due to time and resource constraints the committee voted to implement a smaller subset of the System Verilog expression features for SystemRDL 2.0.  I agree that $clog2() should be added to the next version of SystemRDL.