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System Tasks and Compiler Directives

This document discusses system tasks and compiler directives in Verilog. It describes various system tasks for displaying information like $display, monitoring signals like $monitor, and stopping/finishing simulations like $stop and $finish. It also lists common format specifiers for $display. Finally, it briefly introduces the most common compiler directives like `define, `include, `ifdef, and `timescale which control Verilog compilation.

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System Tasks and Compiler Directives

This document discusses system tasks and compiler directives in Verilog. It describes various system tasks for displaying information like $display, monitoring signals like $monitor, and stopping/finishing simulations like $stop and $finish. It also lists common format specifiers for $display. Finally, it briefly introduces the most common compiler directives like `define, `include, `ifdef, and `timescale which control Verilog compilation.

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System Tasks

And Compiler
Directives
System
Tasks
Verilog provides standard system tasks for certain
routine operations.
All system tasks appear in the form $<keyword>.
Operations such as displaying on the screen,
monitoring values of nets, stopping, and finishing
are done by system tasks.
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Displaying Information

$display is the main system task for displaying


values of variables or strings or expressions.
Usage: $display(p1, p2, p3,....., pn);

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String Format Specifications
Format Display
%d or %D Display variable in decimal
%b or %B Display variable in binary
%s or %S Display string
%h or %H Display variable in hex
%c or %C Display ASCII character
%<special charter> Display special character
Display hierarchical name (no
%m or %M
argument required)
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Format Display
%v or %V Display strength
%o or %O Display variable in octal
%t or %T Display in current time format
Display real number in scientific
%e or %E
format (e.g., 3e10)
Display real number in decimal
%f or %F
format (e.g., 2.13)
Display real number in scientific or
%g or %G
decimal, whichever is shorter
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Monitoring Information
 Verilog provides a mechanism to monitor a signal
when its value changes. This facility is provided
by the $monitor task.
 Usage: $monitor(p1,p2,p3,....,pn);
 Only one monitoring list can be active at a time. If
there is more than one $monitor statement in your
simulation, the last $monitor statement will be the
active statement. 6
 Two tasks are used to switch monitoring on and off.
Usage: $monitoron;
$monitoroff;
 Example:
initial
begin
$monitor($time, " Value of signals clock = %b ,
reset = %b", clock,reset);
end 7
Stopping and finishing in a simulation
The task $stop is provided to stop during a simulation.

Usage: $stop;

The $finish task terminates the simulation.

Usage: $finish;

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Example:
initial
begin
clock = 0; reset = 1;
#100 $stop;
#900 $finish;
end
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Compiler Directives
Compiler directives specifies how a compiler should
process it inputs.
It controls the compilation of Verilog description.
A directive is effective from the point at which it is
declared to the point where another directive
overrides it.
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Types of Compiler Directives
The most used compiler directives in Verilog are:
`define :The `define directive is used to define text
macros in Verilog
`include :The `include directive allows you to
include entire contents of a Verilog source file in
another Verilog file during compilation.
The other 2 directives being- `ifdef and `timescale.
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Thank You

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