Re: [Gems-users] triggering events

["Lei Yang" <lya755@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Using a 0-cycle latency is tricky; it might generate deadlocks if the order 
of in-ports is not properly arranged. I've also tried 1 cycle latency, but 
both of them seem to work well.
Lei
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Marty" <mikem@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Lei Yang" <lya755@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Gems Users" 
<gems-users@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 2:21 PM
Subject: Re: [Gems-users] triggering events


> This is the typical approach we use (i.e., a triggerQueue).  However I've
> never tried using a 0-cycle latency.
>
> --Mike
>
>
> > Hi Dave,
> >
> > I've had similar problem before. I also wanted to trigger events in 
> > actions
> > but couldn't compile. As far as I understand you can only trigger events
> > when processing requests in in-ports. I guess you could modify slicc for
> > that purpose, but what I ended up doing was to create a local in-port and
> > enqueue requests there whenever I want to trigger events. So in short, in
> > that transition you are watching, take an action which enqueues a special
> > request (with a 0 latency) to your special in-port. Then in that in-port 
> > you
> > trigger whatever events you want. I hope this helps and I'm also 
> > interested
> > to hear what Mike suggests.
> >
> > Lei
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Dave Z." <zhu_dave@xxxxxxxxx>
> > To: "gems Users" <gems-users@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 1:49 PM
> > Subject: [Gems-users] triggering events
> >
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Is it possible to trigger an event in an action? I
> > > have tried it, but got some compile errors (trigger
> > > not defined). When the L1 or L2 cache is full
> > > (isTagPresent and cacheAvail return false), I would
> > > like to trigger some events. But I would like to
> > > trigger such events when a certain transition takes
> > > place. Could you please show me some pointers?
> > >
> > > Thank you,
> > >
> > > Dave
> > >
> > >
> > >
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