Yosys Circuit Diagrams

NOTE: Multiple top-level design modules are not supported by Yosys Cicruit Diagrams.

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The Yosys synthesis flow can create circuit diagrams.

  • Square boxes are cells. Outputs on the right, inputs and unrecognized ports on the left. The first line of text in the box in the cell name, or _<number>_ for internal cells. The 2nd line is the cell type. Internal cell types start with a dollar sign. (There is a chapter in the manual about the internal cell library used in yosys.)

  • Diamond-shaped nodes are wires that are not ports. Octagon-shaped nodes are ports.

  • Elliptical nodes are constant drivers. The label has the format <width>’<bits> or simply <number> for 32 bit integers.

  • Boxes with round corners with lines such as 0:0 - 42:42 are used to break out and re-combine nets from busses. So for example

    wire [3:0] a, b;
wire [7:0] y = {a,b};

    will create the following box:

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    The numbers tell you which bits on which side are connected. for example ‘3:0 - 7:4’ means that the bits 3:0 from the left net are connected to bits 7:4 from the right net. Usually the box has a single connection on one side and individual connections on the other side. When such boxes are connected to each other or to a cell port, the connections have little diamonds on the ends instead of arrows. That’s because its not an actual connection in the sense of the internal RTLIL netlist format.

  • For a detailed explanation, see Yosys Application Note 011: Interactive Design Investigation