The previous implementation for finding the end of a top-level s-expr
exhibited quadratic behavior as it would re-scan the complete input for
the current expression for every new line. For large designs with
trivial properties this could easily take seconds and dominate the
runtime over the actual solving.
This change remembers the current nesting level between lines, avoiding
the re-scanning.
Python 3.12 emits a SyntaxWarning when encountering invalid escape
sequences. They still parse as expected. Marking these raw produces
the same result without the warnings.
The witness metadata was missing fine grained FFs completely and for
coarse grained FFs where the output connection has multiple chunks it
lacked the offset of the chunk within the SMT expression. This fixes
both, the later by adding an "smtoffset" field to the metadata.
This adds a native json based witness trace format. By having a common
format that includes everything we support, and providing a conversion
utility (yosys-witness) we no longer need to implement every format for
every tool that deals with witness traces, avoiding a quadratic
opportunity to introduce subtle bugs.
Included:
* smt2: New yosys-smt2-witness info lines containing full hierarchical
paths without lossy escaping.
* yosys-smtbmc --dump-yw trace.yw: Dump results in the new format.
* yosys-smtbmc --yw trace.yw: Read new format as constraints.
* yosys-witness: New tool to convert witness formats.
Currently this can only display traces in a human-readable-only
format and do a passthrough read/write of the new format.
* ywio.py: Small python lib for reading and writing the new format.
Used by yosys-smtbmc and yosys-witness to avoid duplication.
Refer to the SMT-LIB specification, section 4.1.7. According to the spec, some options can only be specified in `start` mode. Once the solver sees `set-logic`, it moves to `assert` mode.
Ensures that "BV" is the logic whenever solving an exists-forall problem with Yices, moves the "(set-logic ...)" directive above any non-info line, sets the `ef-max-iters` parameter to a very high number when using Yices in exists-forall mode so as not to prematurely abandon difficult problems, and does not provide the incompatible "--incremental" Yices argument when in exists-forall mode.
Modifies smt2 backend to recognize `$anyconst` etc. assigned to a wire with the `maximize` or `minimize` attribute and emit `; yosys-smt2-maximize` or `; yosys-smt2-minimize` directives as appropriate.
Modifies `backends/smt2/smtbmc.py` and `smtio.py` to recognize those directives and emit a `(maximize ...)` or `(minimize ...)` command at the end of `smt_forall_assert()`, as described in the paper "νZ - An Optimizing SMT Solver" by Nikolaj Bjørner et al.
Adds an example `examples/smtbmc/demo9.v` to show how it can be used.
