transforms: quantize time before interleaving

artiq/coredevice/core.py

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import os
 
 from artiq.transforms.inline import inline
 from artiq.transforms.lower_units import lower_units
+from artiq.transforms.quantize_time import quantize_time
 from artiq.transforms.remove_inter_assigns import remove_inter_assigns
 from artiq.transforms.fold_constants import fold_constants
 from artiq.transforms.remove_dead_code import remove_dead_code
@@ -54,6 +55,9 @@ class Core:
         remove_inter_assigns(func_def)
         debug_unparse("remove_inter_assigns_1", func_def)
 
+        quantize_time(func_def, self.runtime_env.ref_period)
+        debug_unparse("quantize_time", func_def)
+
         fold_constants(func_def)
         debug_unparse("fold_constants_1", func_def)
 
@@ -63,9 +67,7 @@ class Core:
         interleave(func_def)
         debug_unparse("interleave", func_def)
 
-        lower_time(func_def,
+        lower_time(func_def, getattr(self.runtime_env, "initial_time", 0))
-                   getattr(self.runtime_env, "initial_time", 0),
-                   self.runtime_env.ref_period)
         debug_unparse("lower_time", func_def)
 
         remove_inter_assigns(func_def)

artiq/transforms/lower_time.py

@@ -1,64 +1,29 @@
+"""This transform implements time management functions (delay/now/at)
+using an accumulator 'now' and simple replacement rules:
+
+    delay(t) ->  now += t
+    now()    ->  now
+    at(t)    ->  now = t
+
+Time parameters must be quantized to integers before running this transform.
+The accumulator is initialized to an int64 value at the beginning of the
+output function.
+
+"""
+
 import ast
 
 from artiq.transforms.tools import value_to_ast
 from artiq.language.core import int64
 
 
-def _time_to_cycles(ref_period, node):
-    divided = ast.copy_location(
-        ast.BinOp(left=node,
-                  op=ast.Div(),
-                  right=value_to_ast(ref_period)),
-        node)
-    return ast.copy_location(
-        ast.Call(func=ast.Name("round64", ast.Load()),
-                 args=[divided],
-                 keywords=[], starargs=[], kwargs=[]),
-        divided)
-
-
-def _time_to_cycles_opt(ref_period, node):
-    if (isinstance(node, ast.Call)
-            and isinstance(node.func, ast.Name)
-            and node.func.id == "cycles_to_time"):
-        return node.args[0]
-    else:
-        return _time_to_cycles(ref_period, node)
-
-
-def _cycles_to_time(ref_period, node):
-    return ast.copy_location(
-        ast.BinOp(left=node,
-                  op=ast.Mult(),
-                  right=value_to_ast(ref_period)),
-        node)
-
-
 class _TimeLowerer(ast.NodeTransformer):
-    def __init__(self, ref_period):
-        self.ref_period = ref_period
-
     def visit_Call(self, node):
-        # optimize time_to_cycles(now()) -> now
+        if isinstance(node.func, ast.Name) and node.func.id == "now":
-        if (isinstance(node.func, ast.Name)
-                and node.func.id == "time_to_cycles"
-                and isinstance(node.args[0], ast.Call)
-                and isinstance(node.args[0].func, ast.Name)
-                and node.args[0].func.id == "now"):
             return ast.copy_location(ast.Name("now", ast.Load()), node)
-
+        else:
-        self.generic_visit(node)
+            self.generic_visit(node)
-        if isinstance(node.func, ast.Name):
+            return node
-            funcname = node.func.id
-            if funcname == "now":
-                return _cycles_to_time(
-                    self.ref_period, 
-                    ast.copy_location(ast.Name("now", ast.Load()), node))
-            elif funcname == "time_to_cycles":
-                return _time_to_cycles(self.ref_period, node.args[0])
-            elif funcname == "cycles_to_time":
-                return _cycles_to_time(self.ref_period, node.args[0])
-        return node
 
     def visit_Expr(self, node):
         r = node
@@ -69,23 +34,19 @@ class _TimeLowerer(ast.NodeTransformer):
                 r = ast.copy_location(
                     ast.AugAssign(target=ast.Name("now", ast.Store()),
                                   op=ast.Add(),
-                                  value=_time_to_cycles_opt(
+                                  value=node.value.args[0]),
-                                    self.ref_period,
-                                    node.value.args[0])),
                     node)
             elif funcname == "at":
                 r = ast.copy_location(
                     ast.Assign(targets=[ast.Name("now", ast.Store())],
-                               value=_time_to_cycles_opt(
+                               value=node.value.args[0]),
-                                    self.ref_period,
-                                    node.value.args[0])),
                     node)
         self.generic_visit(r)
         return r
 
 
-def lower_time(func_def, initial_time, ref_period):
+def lower_time(func_def, initial_time):
-    _TimeLowerer(ref_period).visit(func_def)
+    _TimeLowerer().visit(func_def)
     func_def.body.insert(0, ast.copy_location(
         ast.Assign(targets=[ast.Name("now", ast.Store())],
                    value=value_to_ast(int64(initial_time))),

artiq/transforms/quantize_time.py

@@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
+"""This transform turns calls to delay/now/at that use non-integer time
+expressed in seconds into calls that use int64 time expressed in multiples of
+ref_period.
+
+It does so by inserting multiplication/division/rounding operations around
+those calls.
+
+The time_to_cycles and cycles_to_time core language functions are also
+implemented here.
+
+"""
+
+import ast
+
+from artiq.transforms.tools import value_to_ast
+
+
+def _call_now(node):
+    return ast.copy_location(
+        ast.Call(func=ast.Name("now", ast.Load()),
+                 args=[], keywords=[], starargs=[], kwargs=[]),
+        node)
+
+
+def _time_to_cycles(ref_period, node):
+    divided = ast.copy_location(
+        ast.BinOp(left=node,
+                  op=ast.Div(),
+                  right=value_to_ast(ref_period)),
+        node)
+    return ast.copy_location(
+        ast.Call(func=ast.Name("round64", ast.Load()),
+                 args=[divided],
+                 keywords=[], starargs=[], kwargs=[]),
+        divided)
+
+
+def _cycles_to_time(ref_period, node):
+    return ast.copy_location(
+        ast.BinOp(left=node,
+                  op=ast.Mult(),
+                  right=value_to_ast(ref_period)),
+        node)
+
+
+class _TimeQuantizer(ast.NodeTransformer):
+    def __init__(self, ref_period):
+        self.ref_period = ref_period
+
+    def visit_Call(self, node):
+        funcname = node.func.id
+        if funcname == "now":
+            return _cycles_to_time(self.ref_period, _call_now(node))
+        elif funcname == "delay" or funcname == "at":
+            if (isinstance(node.args[0], ast.Call)
+                    and node.args[0].func.id == "cycles_to_time"):
+                # optimize:
+                # delay/at(cycles_to_time(x)) -> delay/at(x)
+                node.args[0] = self.visit(node.args[0].args[0])
+            else:
+                node.args[0] = _time_to_cycles(self.ref_period,
+                                               self.visit(node.args[0]))
+            return node
+        elif funcname == "time_to_cycles":
+            if (isinstance(node.args[0], ast.Call)
+                    and node.args[0].func.id == "now"):
+                # optimize:
+                # time_to_cycles(now()) -> now()
+                return _call_now(node)
+            else:
+                return _time_to_cycles(self.ref_period,
+                                       self.visit(node.args[0]))
+        elif funcname == "cycles_to_time":
+            return _cycles_to_time(self.ref_period,
+                                   self.visit(node.args[0]))
+        else:
+            self.generic_visit(node)
+            return node
+
+
+def quantize_time(func_def, ref_period):
+    _TimeQuantizer(ref_period).visit(func_def)