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Vl-clkskew

Representation of a clock skew (clocking blocks).

This is a product type introduced by defprod.

Fields
delay — vl-maybe-expr
Cycle delay amount, e.g., #3, if applicable.
edge — vl-evatomtype-p
Edge indicator, or :vl-noedge for edgeless skews.

Clock skews are described in SystemVerilog-2012 Section 14.4. They indicate when a signal is to be sampled relative to a clocking event. Some examples:

clocking @(posedge clk);
   input #3 foo;          // <-- skew is '#3'
   input negedge bar;     // <-- skew is 'negedge'
   input negedge #3 baz;  // <-- skew is both 'negedge #3'
endclocking

Per 14.3 (page 304) input skews are implicitly ``negative'' in that they say how far before the clock the signal should be sampled; output skews are ``positive'' and refer to some time after the clock.

Instead of numbers, skews can also be posedge, negedge, or edge, which indicate that, e.g., that bar above should be sampled at the negedge of clk. I'm not sure what edge means or how these combine with delays, but Section 14.4 may be a good starting place.

Subtopics

Vl-clkskew-fix
Fixing function for vl-clkskew structures.
Vl-clkskew-equiv
Basic equivalence relation for vl-clkskew structures.
Make-vl-clkskew
Basic constructor macro for vl-clkskew structures.
Vl-clkskew-p
Recognizer for vl-clkskew structures.
Vl-clkskew->edge
Get the edge field from a vl-clkskew.
Vl-clkskew->delay
Get the delay field from a vl-clkskew.
Change-vl-clkskew
Modifying constructor for vl-clkskew structures.