cvw/pipelined/src/ieu/comparator.sv

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// comparator.sv
//
// Written: David_Harris@hmc.edu 8 December 2021
// Modified: 
//
// Purpose: Branch comparison
// 
// A component of the Wally configurable RISC-V project.
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`include "wally-config.vh"

module comparator #(parameter WIDTH=32) (
  input  logic [WIDTH-1:0] a, b,
  output logic [2:0]       flags);

  logic [WIDTH-1:0] bbar, diff;
  logic             carry, eq, neg, overflow, lt, ltu;

  // NOTE: This can be replaced by some faster logic optimized
  // to just compute flags and not the difference.

  // subtraction
  assign bbar = ~b;
  assign {carry, diff} = a + bbar + 1;

  // condition code flags based on add/subtract output
  assign eq = (diff == 0);
  assign neg  = diff[WIDTH-1];
  // overflow occurs when the numbers being subtracted have the opposite sign 
  // and the result has the opposite sign fron the first
  assign overflow = (a[WIDTH-1] ^ b[WIDTH-1]) & (a[WIDTH-1] ^ diff[WIDTH-1]);
  assign lt = neg ^ overflow;
  assign ltu = ~carry;
  assign flags = {eq, lt, ltu};
endmodule