Globals

Globals Configuration

The top-level globals key can be used to set globals and environment variables. The globals key uses the following structure:

globals:
  version: 0.4

  environment_variables:
    ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE_1: Value1
    ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE_2: Value2
    ...
  expression_custom_functions:
    - path_to_script_1.py
    - path_to_script_2.py

Multiple globals keys can exist in a specification using different prefixes and/or suffixes. For example, globals1: ... and globals2: ... may exist as two distinct globals top-keys, and their contents will be combined by the parser.

The environment_variables key

This key contains a dictionary of environment variables that will be activated for Timeloop+Accelergy calls. The following settings are accepted:

• \*ACCELERGY_COMPONENT_LIBRARIES\*: <PATH>: Add a path to the search path for the Accelergy Library Plug-In. Files found in this path will be used to find estimations for primitive components. Prefixes and suffixes are allowed for this key, allowing multiple keys to specify multiple paths.
• TIMELOOP_HIDE_INCONSEQUENTIAL_STATS: 1: Do not output zero-energy zero-access buffers and networks in Timeloop outputs.
• TIMELOOP_OUTPUT_STAT_DEFAULT_FLOAT: 0: Disable default C++-style float representations.
• TIMELOOP_OUTPUT_STAT_SCIENTIFIC: 1: Set to 1 to use scientific notation in Timeloop statistic outputs. Use with TIMELOOP_OUTPUT_STAT_DEFAULT_FLOAT: 0.
• TIMELOOP_USE_ISL: 1: Enable ISL-based mapping evaluation.

The expression_custom_functions key

This key contains a list of paths to Python scripts which include functions that may be useful for parsing expressions. The parser will import the pointed-to and make all functions in the top-level scope available to the parser. For example, the following is allowed:

In script.py:

def my_function(x):
    return x + 5

In the YAML specification:

globals:
    version: 0.4
    expression_custom_functions:
    - script.py
    ...

variables:
    evaluated_value: my_function(5) # Imported my_function from script.py

For more information on parsing expressions, see the arithmetic parsing page.