These updates should not be necessary. In fact, if they were necessary, this code
would be buggy, because the results would depend on the order in which wires are traversed:
If wire A is retained, which causes an update to `used_signals`, which then causes wire B
to be retained when it otherwise wouldn't be, then we would get different results depending
on whether A is visited before B.
These updates will also make it difficult to process these wires in parallel.
Change from equality check to >= to allow cells where output
is wider than natural width (zero-extended). Only reject cells
with Y_WIDTH < natural width (truncated).
This fixes test failures while still preventing the truncation
issue identified in widlarizer's feedback.
Only allow rebalancing of cells with "natural" output widths (no truncation).
This prevents equivalence failures when moving operands between adders
with different intermediate truncation points.
For each operation type, the natural width is:
- Addition: max(A_WIDTH, B_WIDTH) + 1 (for carry bit)
- Multiplication: A_WIDTH + B_WIDTH
- Logic ops: max(A_WIDTH, B_WIDTH)
Fixes widlarizer's counterexample in YosysHQ/yosys#5605 where an 8-bit
intermediate wire was intentionally truncating adder results, and
rebalancing would change where that truncation occurred.
This pass converts cascaded chains of arithmetic and logic cells ($add,
$mul, $and, $or, $xor) into balanced binary trees to improve timing
performance in hardware synthesis.
The optimization uses a breadth-first search approach to identify chains
of compatible cells, then recursively constructs balanced trees that
reduce the critical path depth.
Features:
- Supports arithmetic cells: $add, $mul
- Supports logic cells: $and, $or, $xor
- Command-line options: -arith (arithmetic only), -logic (logic only)
- Preserves signed/unsigned semantics
- Comprehensive test suite with 30 test cases
Original implementation by Akash Levy <akash@silimate.com> for Silimate.
Upstreamed from https://github.com/Silimate/yosys
