// // // This circuit generates WE pulses. For example, if you have a chip that // needs to access an asynchronous SRAM in a single cycle and you wanted // generate the WE pulse synchronous with your system clock. // // Every clk cycle, generate an active // low WE pulse. The delay from the clk rising edge to the falling edge of // we is based on abits setting, which affects delay taps, etc. Likewise, // bbits controls the following rising edge of we. The module contains // two flip flops that generate two opposite poraity toggling levels. // A delay chain is attached to each of these outputs. The abits and bbits // get the desired tap, and the final two delayed signals are XORed together // to get the final we. None of this is very tuned, you would look at your // cycle time and pick a delay chain that makes sense for that. But, this // shows the effect. // // The we pulse always occurs. You will probably want to combine this with // you write_enable signal. This sort of circuit is, of course, highly dependent // on post-layout timing, etc. but that's why its programable. You probably // want more taps, too.. // // module wpulse ( reset, clk, abits, bbits, we ); input clk; input reset; input [3:0] abits; // bits to select which delay tap to use for first edge input [3:0] bbits; // bits to select which delay tap to use for pulse width output we; reg p1, p2; wire adel1out; wire adel2out; wire adel3out; wire adel4out; wire bdel1out; wire bdel2out; wire bdel3out; wire bdel4out; wire adelout; wire bdelout; // 2 flip-flops that are opposite polarity. Each flop toggles // every cycles. // always @(posedge clk) p1 <= (reset) | (~reset & ~p1); // reset to 1 always @(posedge clk) p2 <= (~reset & ~p2); // reset to 0 // Delay chain off of the p1 flop. delay4 adel1 (.a(p1), .z(adel1out)); delay4 adel2 (.a(adel1out), .z(adel2out)); delay4 adel3 (.a(adel2out), .z(adel3out)); delay4 adel4 (.a(adel3out), .z(adel4out)); // Delay chain off of the p2 flop. delay4 bdel1 (.a(p2), .z(bdel1out)); delay4 bdel2 (.a(bdel1out), .z(bdel2out)); delay4 bdel3 (.a(bdel2out), .z(bdel3out)); delay4 bdel4 (.a(bdel3out), .z(bdel4out)); // Select the tap of the p1 and p2 delay chains we want based on abits assign adelout = abits[3] & adel1out | abits[2] & adel2out | abits[1] & adel3out | abits[0] & adel4out; assign bdelout = bbits[3] & bdel1out | bbits[2] & bdel2out | bbits[1] & bdel3out | bbits[0] & bdel4out; // Final we pulse is just the XOR of the two chains. assign we = adelout ^ bdelout; endmodule // This is our delay cell. Pick whatever cell makes sense from your library. module delay4 (a, z); input a; output z; reg z; always @(a) z = #4 a; endmodule // synopsys translate_off module testwpulse; reg clk; reg reset; reg [3:0] abits; // bits to select which delay tap to use for first edge reg [3:0] bbits; // bits to select which delay tap to use for pulse width wire we; wpulse wpulse_inst ( .reset (reset), .clk (clk), .abits (abits), .bbits (bbits), .we (we) ); initial begin abits = 4'b1000; // Shortest pulse, earliest in cycle. bbits = 4'b0100; #200; abits = 4'b0010; // Shortest pulse, latest in the cycle. bbits = 4'b0001; #200; abits = 4'b0100; // Shortest pulse, middle of the cycle. bbits = 4'b0010; #200; abits = 4'b1000; // Longest cycle bbits = 4'b0001; #200; abits = 4'b1000; // Early in cycle, but not quite the longest. bbits = 4'b0010; #200; $finish; end // Reset initial begin reset = 0; #5 reset = 1; #100 reset = 0; end // Generate the 50MHz clock initial begin clk = 0; forever begin #10 clk = 1; #10 clk = 0; end end `define WAVES `ifdef WAVES initial begin $dumpfile ("wpulse.vcd"); $dumpvars (0,testwpulse); end `endif endmodule // synopsys translate_on