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Modify ExpandWhens to process elses as if they were modified whens #601
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chipsalliance/chisel#510 introduces FIRRTL
else
statements to Chisel's code generation. However, this produced a small (and consistent) area regression in rocket-chip, possibly due to buffering/fanout or other select signal logic.This PR introduces a minimal change to ExpandWhens to keep Verilog code generation consistent with prior versions of Chisel3.
This pull request causes the following FIRRTL:
to produce the same mux tree structure as the original style emitted by chisel3:
This is desirable as a baseline to make code generation essentially identical while allowing other changes depending on initialization checks to go forward.