ChiselTest Compatibility Layer for Chisel 7

[EhsanKhodadad]

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[jackkoenig]

Howdy @EhsanKhodadad, thank you for the contribution! Can you sign the CLA?

[EhsanKhodadad]

Howdy @EhsanKhodadad, thank you for the contribution! Can you sign the CLA?

Hi Jack, thank you for your comment.
Sure, I am looking for someone who can sign on behalf of my university.

[jackkoenig]

Thank you again for doing this and for following up on the CLA. I have some comments.

I don't have a very good way to see how well this work in migrating from Chisel 6 with chiseltest to Chisel 7 with this. Do you have some example open-source code where we can see the code diff to perhaps use as a motivating example?

[EhsanKhodadad]

Thank you again for doing this and for following up on the CLA. I have some comments.

I don't have a very good way to see how well this work in migrating from Chisel 6 with chiseltest to Chisel 7 with this. Do you have some example open-source code where we can see the code diff to perhaps use as a motivating example?

We have tested our layer in the Chisel-book repo, where there are several Chisel tests:
https://github.com/schoeberl/chisel-book/tree/master/add-src/main/scala/chiseltest

[jackkoenig]

LGTM!